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Yesterday I was cooking lentils (dal) curry which are one of my favorite and comfort dishes and when it was almost ready I realized I was really craving for some simple bread instead of rice so here was this very simple recipe which I realized is very similar to an indian bread (chapati).

Chapati

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Pe acoperis

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The story started many years ago, as a child I went to a small city in Wales, in autumn. I was cold and rainy and I was unprepared. As such I found very rewarding a second hand ski jacket to warm me. As I came home the white, a bit dirty jacket did not seem so appealing anymore and many years passed with the jacked stacked somewhere in a closet. Until many years ago when R. thought it should be good for it’s original purpose, for some skying lessons. Not for much time but just until a proper jacket was found. So the old jacket ended up as a “fishing” jacket for the cold mornings for R. parents. They washed, prepared it and stacked it. So again, the almost new jacket ended for a few years in a closet. Until a day when someone found it and decided it could be just perfect for something and tried it on. In the process he checked the pocket just to find an old piece of money which was there for the whole time.

So he returned the piece to R parents, who gave it to R the next time she went home and then came to me one day and said: do you remember your old, white jacket?

Twenty pence

Grand Palais

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Paris, Pere Lachaise

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In my stupidity innocence I just hoped that deploying the application on the new JBoss (from 4.2.2-GA to 5.1.0-GA) should be just a simple matter of changing paths in ant. Here are some problems I encountered and was able to fix. (more…)

Paris, culori

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Paris, velo

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Searching for a way to encrypt your files or filesystem on Linux can be an overwhelming choice. At a simple search you find different terms and solutions such as: encfs, dm-crypt, truecrypt, loopback crypt, aespipe, LUKS, etc. The answer is obviously historical. There are a lot of solutions some of them deprecated. I remember a few years ago I solved a similar problem using a tool (can’t remember which) which I was unable to find 2 years later thus remaining with a large file and lost data. Here is a method to encrypt a filesystem or file using LUKS. (more…)