4-6 eggs
Roughly 1 cup of milk
2 big tablespoons of any flour
1-2 cups of grated cheese
generous pinch salt
Meat and Vegetables, chopped.

Mix together 1/2 a cup of milk with the eggs, flour and salt. Continue to add milk until a sloppy batter is formed.
Mix in the meat and vegetables.
Cook at 180C for about 30 mins or until cooked.

Whilst I don’t let my kids have access to my Windows Vista PC, I was interested to read an article (including a video demonstation) the other day on the Parental Controls that are a feature of Vista. They seem to offer much of the protection offered by OpenDNS but without the need to set up a different service. There seems to be less potential for customisation than OpenDNS but it’s a part of the operating system so will appeal to many, including less technical users.

It’s a part of  Windows 7 too.

Have you used Windows Parental Controls? I’d be interested to hear your opinions in the comments.

As a self-professed IT geek, I’m keen to ensure that my children are up to speed with modern technology and understand its role in a modern society.

Despite them being too young for full-time education, they do have their own computer: a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop running a popular operating system called Ubuntu. Continue Reading »

There’s been a lot of noise recently about the Australian government’s plans to implement a national firewall to protect the nation’s internet users from illegal content. I’ll not go into details here but at the time of writing it’s looking like the firewall won’t be erected.

The theory behind a firewall is fine: a firewall is a piece of software that sits between you and the internet, blocking any traffic that violates a set of pre-determined rules. In practice, the Australian national firewall seemed easy to bypass and would most likely have caused internet speeds to slow dramatically as every bit of data that flowed into or out of the country had to be checked.

However, just because the nation isn’t being firewalled doesn’t mean you can’t implement your own. Continue Reading »