Here's a chance for a little interactivity for all the bloggers out there. Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food - but a good omnivore should really try it all. Don't worry if you haven't, mind you; neither have I, though I'll be sure to work on it. Don't worry if you don't recognize everything in the hundred, either; Wikipedia has the answers.Here's what I want you to do:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you've eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
I also numbered the entries I hadn't tried yet. Those are the numbers to the right in parenthesis on some items. One item I couldn't find on the first page of Google results and the entry on Wikipedia seemed to indicate it was NOT something edible. I also added my own addition to the end which I think should have made the list.
]]>1. Venison
2. Nettle tea (1)
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (2)
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses (3)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche (4)
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda (5)
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi (6) - Lots of other Lassi's though!
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea (7)
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal (8)
44. Goat's milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu (9) - keep meaning to do to this, only in US for a month and 3 month pre-order
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi (10)
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle (11)
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine (12)
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (13) - What the heck is this?!? -- mineral possibly containing radioactive materials?!?
64. Currywurst
65. Durian (14)
66. Frogs' legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe (15)
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (16) - Amazingly this hasn't came up yet, it will I'm sure though
76. Baijiu (17)
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky (18)
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant. (19 -- or 18 since 84b counts for 1/2 IMHO)
84b. 12 Course tasting menu at a One Block West
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse (20)
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa (21)
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
So 21 things I haven't had, one of which until I find out what it is, I WILL NOT plan on having. :) I'm pretty happy with that. I have to point Chef Ed at One Block West (best chef/restaurant in Winchester, and way up there including all of Northern Virginia) to this list and see if he can help fill in the missing items. :) I really need to make post a few blog entries describing the tasting menu Chef Ed did for my wife and I as well as a few of the special dinners that we've kept the menus for.
There was one thing that was not on here, that I'd have to add, because other than the radioactive mineral above (and several other non-food things) I've always said I probably couldn't eat. But I don't know, I might eat it. But for now, I'm planning on NOT eating it. :)
101. Balut
One of the tags I used was "high horse" these are the entries where I pontificate on one subject or another. I'll be upfront and state that my opinions may come across stronger (or weaker) than they were and they might be totally different now... so read what you will into them.
Enjoy!
]]>Too long of a story to post, but let us just say that there are many things now upgraded and all once again working in harmony.
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Security BOF
Updates from various Security groups and call for participation.
Community Meeting
Pretty quiet meeting actually. MLC wasn't nearly the hot topic that I believe everyone was expecting.
Keynote
Jay Adelson, CEO of Digg
Views from the Other Side: Confessions of a Guilty Customer
Lots of discussion about being the customer side. Mostly light like the Keynotes have been at NANOG so far, but had some nuggets as all things can. Jay is a very good speaker, but being a serial entrepreneur he kind of has to be.
Coolest thing from pres was at the end when he put up: http://labs.digg.com/swarm/
Peering Wars: Lessons learned from the Cogent-Telia Depeering
Martin Brown, Alin Popescu, & Earl Zmijewski, Renesys Corporation
Favorite quote: "Being a tier 1 is not easy. You will be punished if you are perceived to be in a position of weakness."
Internet Traffic Trends -- A View from 67 ISPs
Craig Labovitz, Danny McPherson, Mike Hollyman & Scott Iekel-Johnson, Arbor Networks
78 ISPs now... sharing data every hour, 5 minute aggregate data
5 MSOs, 4 Tier1s, 15 Tier2s, 4 Content Providers, 1 R&E, rest did not self-classify
1300 routers
So, I'm tired of having to search for that every time, plus the answer is buried deep in standard Slashdot "First Posts" and other drivel, so hopefully this entry gets picked up by Google for a good simple place to answer the question of: How do I get ANSI line drawing characters in Mac OSX or at least Mac OSX X11?
And the very simple answer, by an anonymous coward who I can never thank enough:
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/02/pakistan_hijacks_youtube.shtml
There has been LOTS of comments on NANOG all weekend about it. NANOG is the North American Network Operators Group, generally a bunch of folks in the Americas that participate in some way in the operations of networks and the Internet. You can see the archives at: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/ and see some of the mails that flew back and forth regarding the outage.
I thought I'd provide a summation for the one or two folks who read my blog but aren't geeks, or network geeks at least and maybe teach a little about networking in the process.
Basically on Sunday the Pakistan Government told Pakistan Telecom (along with other ISPs in Pakistan) to block YouTube. Pakistan Telecom decided the best way to do this was to "black hole" some YouTube routes. Black holing traffic on the Internet is basically forcing traffic to a different location and then throwing that traffic away. One of the most drastic ways you can accomplish this is by using the first decision in deciding where next to send a packet. That decision can be described as "Longest Match Wins" in routing.
Think about Longest Match this way. Say you have an address of 221 Main Street, Fairfax, Virginia. Now say you had four paths in front of you, the first path said "Virginia", the second path said "Fairfax, Virginia" and the third path said "Main Street, Fairfax, Virginia" and the fourth path said "221 Main Street, Fairfax, Virginia". You would chose the fourth path because it takes you directly to where you need to go.
So, Pakistan Telecom decided to cheat a bit and say, instead of just going to "YouTube", follow these paths to "West Coast You Tube" and "East Coast You Tube". I've greatly simplified how You Tube breaks up their IP addresses, but the concept holds for this example.
Now what SHOULD have happened is that Pakistan Telecom (PT) SHOULD NOT have advertised those more specific directions (address prefixes) to their upstream transit provider. Those more specific address prefixes should have only been used inside the PT network. However, those prefixes got "leaked". Basically someone put the road-sign up for the public telling everyone on the Internet that PT had the most specific path to get to YouTube.
YouTube responded amazingly quick (30 minutes) and basically started advertising the more specific blocks themselves thus the Longest Match rule no longer applied and instead you had two "221 Main Street, Fairfax, Virginia" road-signs posted; one just said 10 miles, and the other said 1000 miles... people are going to take the shortest path then. Determining the shortest path is another part of routing. Perhaps another day I'll take some time to explain that one.
Longest Match specifically refers to taking your address and comparing it to a routing advertisement (the prefixes) and looking to see how many bits are identical in the two. If you've worked with computers you probably know about the Subnet Mask that you have to assign along with your IP address. When dealing with Subnet Masks, this allows a machine to decide if they need to go to a router or if they can talk to another machine directly. For example: 10.1.1.1 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 (aka 10.1.1.1/24) can talk to any other machine whose IP address begins with 10.1.1 ... WITHOUT going through a router.
In a prefix advertisement the prefix includes something very similar to a Subnet Mask. In this case the mask basically tells other routers in the network how specific of a route any specific prefix represents.
For example: I could say that my home address is "Virginia, Fairfax, Main Street, 221" and I could say that when I advertise my address I'll advertise down to the street name. In networking there is the concept of CIDR notation to describe blocks and sizes of IP addresses. For our teaching example, we'll pretend that to advertise a direction just to street level we would add /streetname to the address. My routing advertisement for path #3 from the above example would look like "Virginia, Fairfax, Main Street/streetname" Then if like #4 I advertised, "Virginia, Fairfax, Main Street, 221/streetnumber" you realized that THAT would be the longest match if you were looking for my specific address.
What if you were looking for 223 Main Street though? In that case, the longest possible match would be path #3 for you, "Virginia, Fairfax, Main Street/streetname" and you'd take that path which would get you to my street, but not directly into my driveway. Once you get to the street you'll get further directions on how to get to #223.
So, now that you hopefully have an idea of how longest match works, what could have been done to prevent this? The simple solution and the one that NORMALLY keeps stuff like this from happening is Route Filters. In this case, PT's transit provider should NOT have accepted any route advertisements from PT for address space that PT doesn't own. Currently the best way to ask people you are providing transit for what their addresses are, then look at the various assigned numbers authorities and/or routing registries to verify the blocks of addresses really belong to them and then create a filter that only allows those addresses to be sent. It is a pretty manual process though, and of course mistakes (or mischief) can happen.
There are discussions ongoing about other ways this could be done. Routing registries could provide certificates or you could sign your routes in a public manner that are in the registries and then when one router talks to another router they could verify through the signed messages that the number/routing authority has identified you as the proper owner (by your possession of the private key/cert) and accept any of those routes. Whew! That is a pretty straightforward way to accomplish this, and hopefully this incident will remind folks that it is important to move forward with it.
Though straightforward, it isn't easy. Lots of folks have to all agree to do it the same way. Other folks have to build infrastructure to support it. Vendors have to update their routers with software that understand how to process it. And of course, then the operators of the networks have to actually understand and use it. We can dream though. :)
If nothing else though, hopefully transit providers (like UU.NET/Verizon, AT&T, Level 3, PCCW, ATDN, etc.) will pay more attention and filter any routes that don't belong to their customers and prevent this from happening at the edge. Some already do, good for them! Some don't. Bad for them!
Oh well, hopefully you found all this interesting. Didn't mean to be so wordy, just mostly wanted to pass along what happened in non-network geek terms.
]]>Preheat oven to 450
Yukon Gold Potatoes sliced on the mandarin slicer, one click less than 1/8" thickness.
Aluminum Foil on cookie sheet, shiny side up (for easy clean up).
Tablespoon of Olive Oil for Roasting spread around on Aluminum Foil.
Lay out chips one thick butting against one another.
Sprinkle Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning on them.
Bake for 10-12 minutes (watch 'em for your version of done)
Peel them off and watch eat immediately (they cool VERY quickly). On my cookie sheet, I could get about 250 calories (2.5 potatos) worth.
Also tried some just with Kosher Salt and Freshly Ground Multi-corn Peppers, Tony Chachere's version was better, but Duke was happy to get a couple of the non-spicy ones.
]]>While I certainly could use Kerberos for the login, I prefer not to and only use standard IMAP and SMTP encrypted auth and not Kerberos. So, in order to completely disable Kerberos from Thunderbird I played around until I found the following combination. Just changing the using-native-gsslib to false will not work as I originally thought it would. I had to put the /dev/null in there to really get it to stop. All seems well for me now, MUCH happier!
1) Open Thunderbird Preferences
2) Advanced Button
3) General Tab
4) Press "Config Editor" button
5) Easiest to just Search for "gss"
6) There will be two entries that both need to be edited:
a) network.negotiate-auth.gsslib = /dev/null
b) network.negotiate-auth.using-native-gsslib = false
7) Close the Config Editor
8) Close the Prefs
9) Restart Thunderbird
Obviously be careful futzing around with the config. I hope this helps some folks!
]]>1) Amuse-bouche: Raw Oyster Shooter (w/Cocktail & Horseradish Sauce and Lemon)
2) Starter: Prosciutto Wrapped Scallops
3) Thick Soup: Gazpacho w/Freshly Sliced Cucumbers
4) Thin Soup: Bonito Broth
5) Fish: Toro Tuna Sashimi w/Wasabi & Lemon Wedge
6) Antipasto: Prosciutto, Artichoke Hearts, Olive Salad, and Kalamata Olives
7) Pasta: Angel Hair w/White White and Garlic Sauce
8) Intermezzo: Raspberry Sorbet
9) Fowl: Quail stuffed with pecan & mushroom dressing
10) Mushrooms: Italian Wild Mushrooms
11a) Main: Dry Aged Chateaubriand (French Fillet Mignon) Steak & Lobster
11b) Main: w/Asparagus and Butternut Squash Vegetables & Russian Black Bread
12) Salad: Wild Greens Salad w/Aged Balsamic & Extra Virgin Olive Oil
13a) Dessert: Banana's Foster
13b) Coffee: Cafe Latte
14) Cheese: Stilton Blue Cheese & Water Crackers
15) Fruit: Watermelon, Cantaloupe, and Strawberries
16) After Dinner: Louis VIII Cognac with a Habana Cohiba
2/4/6U Chassis Sizes
5/10/20/40 Gbps forwarding
High Availability for a product this size/price point
Integrated Services (Firewall/IPSec, etc. without additional hardware)
State of the art QoS
Okay... I'm not blogging my notes this time. Mostly just listening and interacting. :) Nothing to see here, move along!
]]>Michael O'Brien, XKL
XKL is a network equipment vendor
Len Bosack, Cisco Co-Founder, owns XKL
Goal of XKL is to make gobs of bandwidth available for cheap
DXM Product is providing optical transport for NANOG
Encourages everyone to host because MERIT makes it easy
402 Attendees as of 6:13AM
Video Internet: The Next Wave of Disruption to the U.S. Peering Ecosystem
Willliam B. Norton, Equinix
Lots of info about Internet Peering, created a whitepaper or two on subject
Internet Service Providers and Peering whitepaper used by Moscow
12 different whitepapers available all for free
This is the textual version of information exchange
New way to exchange information is video
Massive Disruption in US Peering Ecosystem thanks to short videos
DoveTail - distributing High Def videos to theaters for free for smaller guys
2010 80-90% Internet is Video... is an amazing prediction if true
Desperate Housewives example: 10,000,000 households watching via iTunes woult be 2.1 PETA bytes... 3 days at 64Gpbs circuit
Many comments on why Peer-to-Peer might be the way to go and stop with the central distribution
Comments from Stanford prof who says (while red-faced upset), P2P will NEVER fly because the ISPs won't beef up their network to allow for that... someone else will have to pay for it!
Folks are STILL clinging on to the OLD models... delivery of HTML content... NOT large amounts of data... Network Architectures are NOT moving forward
Panel: Higher Speed Ethernet - 40G vs 100G
Richard A. Steenbergen, nLayer Communications; Greg Hankins, Force10 Networks; Drew Perkins, Infinera; Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo!
Hmmm, a bit of disinformation from Richard. There really is a 100GE group and a 40GE & 100GE group... there isn't anyone publically calling for 40GE only
Greg provided an update on IEEE process and what a PAR is and the like
Jay Note: You can find Geneva Meeting presentations here, and the Meeting Notes here.
Drew provided comments that he feels there will be 40GE for Servers and 100GE for Network... not sure where the servers are plugging into... sucks to be a Network Vendor.
Drew ran WAAAAAAY over... not exactly a Network Operators presentation, can't believe Rich isn't cutting him off... 10 minutes ago
Igor's presentation was same as Yahoo! has been showing at IEEE, NANOG folks got it a LOT better than Intel, Broadcom, and Sun get it though.
Lots of comments... felt like IEEE with Ted, Peter from NTT Verio, and myself. Fun!
A DNS Anomaly Detection and Analysis System
Hyo-Jeong Shin, KT
Basically: put packet sniffers in front of your DNS farms, don't look at DNS log files across many different servers because it takes too long
Revisiting Interdomain Root Cause Analysis from multiple vantage points
Mickael Meulle, France Telecom R&D
Sounds a bit like Nick Feamster's BGP work for providing NOC visibility while troubleshooting issues.
Also singles out AS' who are behaving badly.
ISP Security
Danny McPherson, Arbor Networks and Kevin Lanning, AT&T
NIST has a BGP Security document, lots of comments, incorporated now, published on NIST website today or tomorrow Google "NIST BGP Security"
Looking for additional comments
Merike Kaeo, From Estonia!
Cyber Attacks on Estonia Short Synopsis
Chris Morrow, Verizon
CALEA - What do and do not ISPs have to do?
TALK TO YOUR LAWYERS!
http://www.askcalea.org is a good place to get some basic info, BUT... TALK TO YOUR LAWYERS!
No debating whether or not CALEA should be there... TALK TO YOUR LAWYERS and they'll tell you what you have to do or not.
Cisco can have an ACL to tunnel matches to an mediation server
NOCs and engineers CANNOT know that a tap exists
There is no cost recovery for CALEA, you JUST HAVE TO RESPOND
IPv6 Unique Local Address BOF
Randy Bush, IIJ
ULA's suck. There is no one coming forward asking for them.
Read RFC3879 first. Now read RFC4193.
Block them everywhere. Do not allow them. Can we say STOP loud enough?
BAD BAD BAD.
Beer 'n Gear
Sponsors: Arbor Networks, Cariden, Cisco Systems, Foundry Networks, Juniper Networks, Renesys, Transmode, VSNL International, XKL
Keynote Presentation
David S. Isenberg, Netidentity
Missed due to AOL meeting.
sFlow implementation at AMS-IX
Elisa Jasinska, AMS-IX
Missed due to AOL meeting and AOL work.
Revisiting AS ranking
Mickael Meulle, France Telecom R&D
Missed due to lack of seating. :)
Modeling the Routing of an ISP with C-BGP
Bruno Quoitin, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Missed due to lack of seating. :)
Tutorial: How to Update Wireshark (Ethereal)
Aamer Akhter, Cisco Systems
Peering BOF XV
William B. Norton, Equinix
High availability multicast delivery in IPTV networks
Peter Arberg, Redback Networks
BGP Origins - An Application of the Public Space
Eric Osterweil, UCLA
BGP Convergence in much less than a second
Clarence Filsfils, Cisco Systems
But WAIT say the developers (Manning & Ross) we've put those "zero lot line" homes in there so you don't get all of that multiplex goodness right up against your single family detached urban homes, isn't that just awesome of us?!? No it is not awesome of you, the word you are looking for is dishonest... or deceptive at best.
How do the elected officials represent their constituents interests in this matter? They vote to go ahead and allow the developer to make the changes of course! Now some of the ones that voted to make the changes are up for re-election; they have just gotten their opponents lots of campaign contributions. Great job guys! You mis-represented the wishes of the over 100 people who showed up tonight to speak against the change. Wait, aren't you supposed to be our elected representatives not our elected mis-representatives?
This decision has personally cost us financially. As you can see from the public tax records and new home listings the same model house on the same amount of land is selling for $460k in another part of the development; we paid $520k in May of 2005. Of course this is from the housing slump in general, our bad, we accept that. I accept my dumb mistake of buying a house in early 2005. Oh well, at least it shouldn't get any worse... right?
However, with multiplexes moving into the middle of the neighborhood there is no telling how much more this will effect our net worth. Already being down $60k in assets was pretty bad. Who knows how much more this will cost me. Now I have decided it is worth it to me to throw disposable income away now in fighting this tooth and nail.
And throw I will. I will throw thousands to whatever legal fund we need as an HOA, and I will be generous to the tune of thousands of dollars to the viable candidates running against the Board Members who voted YES for Developers, and NO for Homeowners in Frederick Country. Thousands in a county election should be very helpful to shine a light on our currently elected mis-representatives.
If you have a moment and could drop the Board of Supervisors a line I would appreciate it. Let them know what you think of their decision. My specific elected officials are the Chairman At-Large and the Red Bud Run District who both voted for the developer and against their constituents.
Frederick County Board of Supervisors:
Richard C. Shickle - Chairman At-Large (We can vote for him this year)
292 Green Spring Road, Winchester, VA 22603
(540) 667-2264, fax (540) 678-4484, office (540) 545-7312, email rshickel@shentel.net
Philip A. Lemieux - Redbud Magisterial District (Our rep, we can vote for him in a couple of years)
106 Dell Court, Winchester, VA 22602
(540) 722-3673, fax (540) 678-8253, office (540) 665-4938, email plemieux@visuallink.com
Gene E. Fisher - Shawnee Magisterial District
246 Bush Drive, Winchester, VA 22602
(540) 662-5238, fax (540) 662-5238, office (540) 665-4938, email gfisher@visuallink.com
Bill M. Ewing - Opequon Magisterial District
PO Box 27, Stephens City, VA 22655
(540) 869-5058, fax (540) 868-0072, email supervisorewing@yahoo.com
Barbara E. Van Osten - Back Creek Magisterial District (voted against, yay!; not seeking re-election, boo!)
103 Coopers Lane, Winchester, VA 22602
(540) 667-7673, fax (540) 722-0417, email bosvanosten@comcast.net
Gary W. Dove - Gainesboro Magisterial District
821 Apple Pie Ridge Road, Winchester, VA 22603
(540) 662-2734, fax (540) 662-5468, email garydove4@adelphia.net
Charles S. Dehaven, Jr. - Stonewall Magisterial District
2075 Martinsburg Pike, Winchester, VA 22603
(540) 662-7421, fax (540) 678-8828, email cdehaven@crosslink.net