First off I want to say that I cooked Spaghetti Alla Carbonara for dinner tonight. This is an interesting dish in that you take a mixture of raw eggs, cheese, and garlic and dump it onto the cooked spaghetti noodles. The heat from the noodles end up cooking the eggs and melting the cheese.
My wife and I thought that the meal was good but it was the third best meal that I have cooked out of the three meals. It was still good, but the other two were outstanding. More on this later...
Secondly, I wanted to say that I spent a little time on FieldsNet:R3 (Centralizing the backups from multiple machines). I have found that Linux has the capability to securely log on and transfer files across a network. The primary commands used for this functionality are SSH and SCP. I am now reading up on these commands and will try them out on a couple of Ubuntu machines that I have installed on my LAN.
Lastly, I wanted to address the fact that I am mentioning when I cook dinner. I know that the conventional wisdom is that when a blogger talks about what they had for dinner, or their pets, or what they did at work, that they are likely not producing a blog that is worth reading.
I just want to impress on my reader(s) that I write these entries as much for myself as I do for who ever reads this blog. Writing an entry here can make it very easy for me to search for what I cooked later on down the road. Also, the fact that I am cooking dinner shows that I continue to try and expand my horizons. Now cooking dinner isn't rocket science but if I give it the attention that I give to programming, design, or any other activity that I do professionally, I can begin to understand the interactions between different foods and the techniques required to produce a superior product. Yes, I think like that when I am cooking.