"I vant to be alone" Cheese on toast

This'll clear out the tubes, it's a possible hangover tonic, potential swine flu preventative, uncertain cure for black death and an underarm deoderant to repel snakes.

Required ingredients:
Mature Cheddar cheese
1 Onion
English Mustard
1 large garlic clove per slice of bread
Bread, unsliced wholemeal

On no account ever use an ingredient labelled 'mild' unless it is a beer, and you like that sort of thing.

I go for two slices of bread. Cut using a bread knife, if you are feeling a bit 'under the weather' then be careful with that part, no point in losing a finger or two, and don't used sliced white bread for goodness sake!

Toast your slices on one side, turn over and apply thin layer of English mustard to each. Place your not too thinly sliced onion on top, break the onion slices in to rings first. Put your mature Cheddar cheese on top of the onion, either slab slices or grated. Pop back under the grill.

When the cheese is over midway through cooking, partially to well melted on top, crush a large garlic clove on to each slice. That's a clove per slice of bread. You can use more if you really want to be alone for a while longer. If using a garlic crusher make sure the last of the stuff stuck in the crusher goes on top of the cheese too.

Put back under the grill and cook for a short while, don't cook too long or the garlic will become bitter, longer and it will burn.

Eat it. You should also have a large cup of tea as well. Best make a pot.

I don't get hangovers, I obviously don't drink enough, but this works for me, I've never had Lassa fever, Bilharzia or Beriberi, I'm not sure it is down this revitalising snack, but you never know.

Stink the unstinkable "because the answer is often behind you, behind you, behind you", and in a few hours...

Twit-tastic

A few Twitter moments of the past week.

Doing an early upgrade one morning and tweeting generally about the task in hand, I mentioned iSCSI timeouts, and within the blink of an eye @scevans in California replied to me regarding iSCSI. If i'd been having trouble there would have been a sounding board on hand, as it was we had a chat about the iSCSI implementation on a couple of OS's.

Looking for information on the Gartner website regarding outsourcing I was disappointed to find the latest blog directly referring to the subject was from 2004. I made a minor grumble about this. In an instant @jeffman from Gartner was on the case protecting his company's reputation, he found a few links for me and explained that the Blogs are now organised under analyst rather than topic. Personally I would find an index of topics to be more useful, nevertheless, this is good, on-the-ball stuff, and is/was very helpful.

While browsing the Triumph Motorcycles website I was getting miffed by the number of flash and fancy graphic related failures and broken links. I had a minor grumble about this (honestly I'm not a grumbler but this sounds like a theme developing!) Quick as a flash Mr Beelzebub himself responded (@beezly) to tell me how much he liked the website and that it worked for him, I know this is just a ploy on his part and that he is after a discount from Mr Triumph, fanbois huh!

Even with a signal to noise ratio as low as mine (I can often be the person that put the twit in Twitter) there are plenty of good moments when following (not in a religious sense) a diverse pool of people.