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Had the day off in remembrance of MLK, and Kelly had to work, so I decided to go on walkabout. Wanted to take a hike, but the trail I had in mind was muddy, and therefore closed. On the way, I stopped through Argyle and took a few pics.

Presumable the HS mascot.

The squad cars were much nicer than the sign!

Favorite pic of the day.

Had fun messing with dashcode today. Takes very little time to build a little web app based on an rss feed, and the end result is a mobile version of this site here. It even works when offline in Safari, though not when added to the homescreen, for some reason I can't yet fathom. Short link dump:

• Drupal mobile tools
• Cache manifest info
• Building offline webapps on the iPhone

enjoy!

taken in the Jemez mountains of New Mexico.

Background

We recently joined a CSA, and although we haven't received our first share yet, we've already been trying to integrate more fruits and vegetables in our diet. Two nights ago, we had a delicious salad with romaine, kale and grilled chicken, peppers and onions. We loved it, but the kale was a bit... tough. We had some kale in a salad at a friend's house that must have been a different variety, because it was much better raw. Anyway, I was making dinner tonight, and tried to figure out a way to make kale a less robust part of the meal. Here's what I came up with:

Ingredients

• one bunch kale (4-5 large leaves or so)
• one (14oz) can white northern beans
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 2 cups water
• 1/2 red onion
• 1 large clove garlic
• 4-5 medium sized tomatoes
• olive oil
• balsamic vinegar
• spices

Directions

I recently had to update a number of drupal installations, some of them quite old. Here is a bash "few-liner" to migrate an install to CVS, making it much easier to update in the future.


cd your_drupal_dir
# replace DRUPAL-6-12 with the appropriate version tag
cvs -z6 -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal checkout \
-r DRUPAL-6-12 new_drupal
rm -rf new_drupal/sites
mkdir old_drupal
for i in `ls drupal`; do mv $i old_drupal; mv drupal/$i .; done
# if you have drush
drush updatedb
# make sure everything's working, then rm -rf old_drupal


Standard disclaimers apply, hope this helps some people!

I made this the other night from what looked good and was on sale at the store, and it turned out pretty well - so, I thought I would share what I came up with.

Ingredients:
1 head Romaine lettuce
1 good sized tomato
2-3 oz. Chevre (goat cheese)
3-4 pieces bacon
1 small avocado
mustard powder
garlic powder
cayenne pepper
nutmeg
italian seasoning
salt
pepper
olive oil
balsamic vinegar

Cook bacon. Wash Lettuce, and chop the head into 3/4 inch wide strips. Dice the tomato, slice the avocado, and add to the lettuce. Cut bacon into small pieces, and throw it into the mix. Add all seasonings to taste, and toss with oil, vinegar, and the goat cheese. We thought it was delicious!

[edited 18.5.2009 to add image]