Simple tasty curry

Thanks to some of the comments. It's just a curry recipe, no, no, not Moroccan...I'm sorry to get peoples hopes up. That is all it is. If you've cooked Indian or sub-continent style curries before and use pre-made curry pastes, with this you won't. In fact you're making it yourself. I would take a guess at the flavour being more of an Indian/Pakistani style curry. Try it and let me know how you go.

Takes about 10-15 min to prepare.

Needed:
500g of your choice of meat – I have tried this with Chicken and Lamb.
Can of Chickpeas
Can of Diced Tomatoes (optional)
Garam Marsala, Paprika, Cumin, Ground Coriander, Tumeric and Moroccan spice mix (I use Master Foods for this)
Minced garlic
Minced chilli (optional)
Couscous or rice

Directions:
Defrost 500g of Lamb, Beef or Chicken
Cube two brown onions (approx 2cm)
Heat oil in a wok, then place the cubed onion, lots of each spice, couple teaspoons of minced garlic and minced chilli (only if you want it hotter) with stirring (add more oil if needed and be liberal with the spices, you do need a bit to make up the paste)
Drain and rinse a can of chickpeas
Once the onion starts browning and mixing well with the spices add the chickpeas and keep stirring until browned
Dice or cube your defrosted meat and add to the wok and stir to make sure nothing sticks
Stir in a can of diced tomatoes if desired (this thickens the sauce a little bit)
Once the meat has browned turn the heat down to simmer and place a lid on wok if possible
Let it simmer for about an hour to improve the flavour
Serve on a bed of Couscous or rice

Now this was written in a hurry so I'll come back and make sure I haven't missed anything.

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Good night Seattle.

New Alice in Chains video clip - A Looking in View

I heard the song on YouTube the other day but only found live versions and the video clip today. Let me say WOW this is a great song and if you hear the interview with Sean and Jerry you get a little insight into what this album is all about, though the interview does seem to have volume issues. But now check out A Looking in View.

On a side note, I wonder if this album will get the kids of the AIC era to start buying CDs again? To be honest I still listen to my stash of CDs from some time ago now, when you think about it, stuff from the mid 90s up to and around 2000 where my CD purchasing stopped. I listened to what I had and was trapped in an era but NOW there is the chance of new CD purchases and frankly, I can't wait! Doesn't mean I won't stay trapped in an era :P

You win! I ROCK!
Good night Seattle.

Shiny Happy Bankers Parody of Shiny Happy People by REM

Live beyond your means and spend it
Money going round
Nipple criple
Throw your cash around
Credit Fuck it
Take the bank to town
Happy chappies
Mochas all around
Where the money grows
It's from Fannie May

Seven hundred billion changing hands
Shiny happy bankers laughing

Everyone around loved them, loved them
Mortgages on tap
Take it take it
There's no time just buy!
Houses houses
It's a real good start
Forget tomorrows cries
Wall Street's on the sliiiiiide!

Shiny happy bankers holding hands
Shiny happy bankers laughing

©2008 Chris Jolly

Cyber-crime is bigger than the global drug trade

Take it from someone who works in the IT industry and removes malicious software (malware) from computers on a daily basis; cyber-crime seems to be hitting more people than you might think.

You may think that because you have one of the leading Internet Security (IS) suites installed on your system you can't be affected by malware, but it seems that it does not matter. The SMH article shows that there is a lot of people making big bucks from this scam. Either no-one bothers with IS these days or the leading brands aren't detecting and removing this particular type of malware. My experience leads me to believe it is the latter. Read on for a nifty program that seems to remove this particular type of threat and many others.

I recently attended a global IT conference where we heard from a representative of a respected IS firm who claimed that not only is cyber-crime on the increase but that sources from an Australian and US intelligence organisation have confirmed it is already bigger than the drug trade, globally.

The same representative mentioned they were noticing approximately 600 unique threats per hour and using previous years data this is set to increase to around 27-28000 unique threats per hour in 2015, only seven years away. In saying this, the representative did say they were currently ready for this volume.

Now we know that most IS suites do not seem to detect or remove this particular threat, but do I have a program for you! Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and no I don't work for them, it seems to be the only program that I've found which can detect and remove the threat commonly known as Antivirus XP 2008 or 2009. If it doesn't, then you can either hack your computer for hours to remove it or, while annoying but possibly faster, backup your data and start again.

When you install it make sure to run the update (the program may need to be restarted) then run the update one more time before performing a scan. The quick scan seems to be enough. Once the scan is complete you will be prompted to remove the threats then I would suggest a reboot. That's all, though it can't hurt to run a couple of other IS programs after to make sure.