• 1 cup white flour
• ⅔ cup whole wheat flour
• ½ cup sugar
• ¼ cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup water
• ⅓ cup canola oil
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix dry ingredients. Add the remaining and beat until well blended. Pour into a greased 8 or 9-inch pan and bake at 350 °F for 30 to 40 minutes.

You can make a white cake by omitting the cocoa and using double the vanilla.

Makes an excellent base to make gingerbread cake, banana cake, marble cake (mix half cocoa and white cake batter in the pan, leaving a swirl), and it’s the base for my Crustimony Proseed Cake.

I just created a drop-down menu with an option to add your own entries. Feel free to use.

The skinny. Demo.

I just asked my OpenSRS/Tucows domain reseller rep about AAAA (IPv6) glue records: They are planning to support them soon! In the mean time, they can configure them manually.

Blend 1 ripe avocado, 300 ml buttermilk, a spoonful of garlic powder, some chopped parsley, salt, pepper and a dash of lemon juice.

Finally there’s a way to sync contacts out of AOL and into something free. Since AOL Sync is based on Funambol, it uses SyncML, and the Funambol clients.

You’ll need Java, and then:

1. Download the Funambol Google Plug-In. If you want to sync into Outlook, use the AOL Sync client, or look at the other Funambol plug-ins for other systems.
2. Extract it, and run it — look in the funambol, pug-ins, then bin folders. The file is called “runGoogle.cmd” on Windows, and “runGoogle.sh” for Unix systems.
3. Go to Edit, then Communication Settings
4. Put in http://m.sync.aol.com/sync for the Server URL. Fill in your AOL username and password, and your Gmail username and password.
5. Hit OK
6. Hit Synchronize

Voila, your contacts are in Gmail

Say good-bye to a provider that has until now worked very hard on locking your contacts in.

My new cell phone has a qwerty keyboard that lacks an apostrophe.

Spectacular cell phone fail.

I’ve dropped my old number, (970) 596-2816, that Verizon assigned in wrong rate zone (making it not portable), and now I’m on Alltel with an actual number for my rate zone. My new number is (970) 729-1401.

1 soft, ripe avocado

½ cup buttermilk, or ¼ cup water if you want to stay vegan or avoid dairy

2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds

2 tablespoons mirin

¼ cup canola or vegetable oil

1 teaspoon garlic

1 tablespoon chopped fresh ginger

1 tablespoon soy sauce

Blend. Eat. Avoid using a spoon however much you want to since it won’t actually manage to get any on your sald if you do.

Rip, Ruby’s Intelligent Packaging looks really superb. It does what RubyGems does with only a tiny portion of the code overhead. It doesn’t incur any runtime costs, doesn’t need the code modified to use it. It’s just generally swooft.

Masa, $2.79 per bag. Makes 128 tortillas. 6 tortillas. 21¢

Beef stir-fry meat, $3.99 per pound. ⅓ pound. $1.33

Cheddar cheese, $6 per pound. ⅛ pound. 75¢

Sour cream .$1.89 for 8 ounces. 1 ounce. 23¢

⅓ pound of onion. 89¢ per pound. 30¢

A little oil, a little garlic, oregano, rosemary, cayenne. 25¢ at most since I buy in bulk.

$3.07. Feeds two.

I just had dinner with my mother. It was so good to catch up, since my parents have been away for seven months. I got to see photos of the places they stayed in Northe Carolina, and to start to get a feel for what it was like there.

As she was leaving this evening, she started to cry, saying “I feel like I lost you somewhere along the way. We’re so distant”

I’m not entirely sure what to do with this.

Disability and class (Feministe), an excellent essay, starting off as personal touch and coming to some conclusions. The comments are good.

Presente is an organization, mostly latino, for immigration policy reform.

The Purity Myth (a book, read exerpt online with google). I’m inclined to agree that the notion of ‘virginity’ has to go away.

Stumbling on Success is an amazingly good article.

A survey about beliefs on the nature of consent. Mind-bendingly good. Good stuff to ponder.

Mix:

1 tablespoon yeast 2 tablespoons vital wheat gluten 1/4 cup buckwheat or rye flour 2 cups flour 2 cups water

Let sit 30 minutes

Add:

1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon dill weed, cut 1 tablespoon dill seed, whole 1 tablespoon caraway seed, whole 2 cups of flour, kneading the last bit in

Knead and add flour until a firm dough is formed

Let rise until double

Punch down and shape into loaves – rounds and sandwich loaves both work great.

Let rise until they’ve increased halfway, then bake at 350 for 35 to 45 minutes.