{"id":289,"date":"2010-01-07T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2010-01-07T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T20:39:07","slug":"very-cold-indeed-and-some-bits-and-bobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Very cold indeed and some bits and bobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The cold<\/h1>\n<p>It has been somewhat cold recently here in the UK. Woke up today to find that I couldn&#8217;t see outside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/frost0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-286\" title=\"frost0\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/frost0-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/frost0-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/frost0.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is frost, but on the inside of the window. I am currently sleeping under two duvets and getting up is not pleasant experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/frost1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-287\" title=\"frost1\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/frost1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/frost1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/frost1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even what looks like condensation at the top of the window was completely frozen. Would be nice to have double glazing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/frost2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-288\" title=\"frost2\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/frost2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/frost2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/frost2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>More fedora icing<\/h1>\n<p>I forgot to post the sprinkled sugar cupcakes I made a few months ago for the release. These were made using a paper cut-out template and then dusted. I should have made more blue icing sugar. I found the best way to make it was using a small resealable plastic bag. Add the icing sugar and a little blue dye. Then squish the lumps with your fingers until it is dry and fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fedora-cupcake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-290\" title=\"fedora-cupcake\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fedora-cupcake-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fedora-cupcake-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fedora-cupcake-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fedora-cupcake.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Take that GDM!<\/h1>\n<p>It is a shame, but at the university there is somewhat strong resistance to the concept of a graphical login. Here is what the students see when they come to log into a machine. It will look even more silly on high resolution monitors with KMS graphics where the ASCII art occupies a small section in the upper left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/login.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-291\" title=\"login\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/login-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/login-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/login-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/login.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cold It has been somewhat cold recently here in the UK. Woke up today to find that I couldn&#8217;t see outside. That is frost, but on the inside of the window. I am currently sleeping under two duvets and getting up is not pleasant experience. Even what looks like condensation at the top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}