Ramblings

  • Report URI is a good thing

    Report URI is a good thing

    I listen to a few infosec related podcasts, and follow a few people on Twitter in that space. In this particular instance, Scott Helme and Troy Hunt – they built a service called Report URI, and it’s fantastic. It implements a reporting service for violations of Content Security Policy declarations, which can turn up some…

  • Adventures with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX

    Adventures with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX

    Asterisk, running on one of my Pis, has been giving me grief recently and dropping calls at random times for apparently random reasons. It reports that it loses contact with the gateway, or that after 11 seconds a critical packet wasn’t received (usually on call setup), or that there’s been no RTP traffic, even when…

  • Leathercraft – Card wallet

    Leathercraft – Card wallet

    The second leathercraft workshop was held today at work. On the menu – simple wallets. I opted for a card-holder style wallet, but with only a single card-pull; the template shown below was only applied to the thinner piece of leather, while the thicker piece was left as a rectangle. Used a groover to outline…

  • Bajan Sweetbread

    Bajan Sweetbread

    While cleaning out my Google Docs, I found this recipe. Ingredients Dry goods 1 250 g plain white flour 1 tbsp grated nutmeg 1/2 tsp salt Dry goods 2 50 g shortening 50 g margarine Dry goods 3 175 g brown sugar 50 g cherries 50 g raisins 225 g grated fresh coconut (not desiccated)…

  • Cutless bearing – new tube glassed in

    Cutless bearing – new tube glassed in

    It’s been a long time since I last saw “Blue Opal”, though I’ve been able to keep up with what’s happening to her via regular calls to the yard where she’s being worked on. Today, I got a photographic status update. That’s the new stern tube glassed in, filler work has started, and they’re doing…

  • Leathercraft – Bracelet

    Leathercraft – Bracelet

    Work has some nice perks, such as an “analogue” space, where workshops are periodically held – calligraphy, photography, sewing, leathercraft etc. Last week, I had a space in my calendar that lined up with a a leathercraft workshop that was being run by the Dublin Leather Store. For this first workshop (there are a few…