Moved to Wordpress

Hi All,

I grew increasingly annoyed by the post editor on Blogger, so after trying typepad and being pretty disgusted, I have found Wordpress to be pretty good. Turns out I have had an account there since 2006!

You can find the new blog there:
http://blog.pas.net.au/

Django and Google App Engine Tutorial

I have moved from Blogger to Wordpress. You can find my Django and Google App Engine Tutorial there

Vegemite Beer Bread

I should have posted this on Australia Day (when we made it), but I haven't got around to it until now.

Aussie Vegemite Beer Bread

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of self-rising (raising?) flour
• 1 beer (375mL can or 12oz bottle)
• 1 big knife-load of Vegemite
• Grated Parmesan cheese
• Left over butter

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C)
2. Lightly grease a small bread tin (about 9 x 5 x 3 inches) with the butter
3. Get a big mixing bowl, tip in all the flour, add the beer and mix it up. We have found a whisk useless, but a spatula quite good
4. If you like parmesan cheese as much as us, add as much grated parmesan to the mix as you wish
5. Add the mix to the bread tin.
6. Load up a knife with vegemite and run it through the mix - the vegemite will come of the knife and marble through the dough
   
7. Bake for 60 minutes
8. If you didn't get your cheese fill, at the 40 minute mark, take the bread tin out, and sprinkle grated cheese on top of the bread
9. After 60 minutes, you should be able to put a skewer into the bread and have it come out clean. Let the bread cool a little, cut and eat as fast as possible :-)

First Post - rant

Well, this is my first blog post, so what should I write about? Why not have a little rant about something I discovered recently (at least on Ubuntu).

`sudo` depends on DNS

WTF? Why does something like local privilege escalation, which does not leave the machine I am on, have anything to do with networking. Further, why the hell should a network configuration issue stop sudo from working. And even further still, why would Ubuntu (which as part of the normal install process does not set a root password) allow something as essential and necessary as sudo to be depended on a functioning network configuration?

Amazingly though, a Google search showed this is a known issue. I really like the title of this bug: "Manually Configuring Network Causes Massive, Unreversable, Failure".

I believe this will be the first of many rants this blog will see, so readers (yes all 1 of you... thanks honey), check back soon. I'll try and keep it G rated, but no guarantees :-)