Yeah OK so this isn’t an original recipe, it’s shamelessly lifted from my Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food book that my sister gave me a couple of years ago. I love this recipe and make it at least once a month though, and you can vary it by swapping out the korma paste with any sort of paste – tandoori, tikka massala etc. Ingredients Half a Cucumber Lemon juice Red chilli Yoghurt Coriander 2x Naan bread 2x Salmon fillets Salt & Pepper Korma paste (e.g

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Recipe: Salmon Korma on Naan

As many of you probably know, I’ve been working for quite some time on a project called Private Passwords . It is an online password management tool which stores your passwords for any site and allows you to retrieve them from anywhere in the world. One of the things that has niggled me for a while was the fact that the encrypted passwords were all encrypted using an AES encryption key , but had no real barrier if someone somehow managed to get hold of the AES key

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Adding Extra Security – Encrypting Passwords For Multiple Users

Just take 15 minutes out of your day and see life from a different point of view – life Up There .

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Best 15 minutes of my day

So here’s a few useless usage statistics about this website I found using Google Analytics… Browser Distribution Firefox – 58.93% Internet Explorer – 15.58% Chrome – 10.33% Safari – 9.64% Mozilla – 2.92% Flash Usage 8.31% of visitors do not report to have Flash installed Operating Systems Windows – 55.95% Linux – 29.54% Mac – 8.61% Android – 4.90% iPhone – 0.31% iPod – 0.17% FreeBSD – 0.06% Playstation 3 – 0.06% Blackberry – 0.02% Java Support Yes – 76.80% No – 23.20% Top 10 Countries Ordered By Visits United States United Kingdom Spain Germany Canada Australia France Netherlands India Italy Other Figures… 1.23 average page views per visit 59 seconds average time on site (yikes!) 86.51% new visitors versus 13.49% returning visits

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Usage Statistics On Asgrim.com

This used to be the ‘hello world’ post. It’s taken from July to now – that’s 5 months – to pick a theme for my blog and then get around to editing it. I’m quite inclined to say that that’s pretty rubbish, but I won’t, because that’s the usual response I have to these kind of things.

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Strangers in the same boat – Christmas 2009

Too many times have I seen this in cURL clients: curl_setopt ( $ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST , false ) ; curl_setopt ( $ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER , false ) ; Why is this bad? You leave yourself totally open to man-in-the-middle attacks, and makes SSL virtually pointless. Sure the data passed between the two servers would still be encrypted, but there is no way of verifying the server you’re talking to is the server you WANT to be talking to! My recommendation is that you verify the server is genuine by checking against the genuine CA certificate in PEM format.

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cURL Tips – HTTPS requests

When you write something that connects to a web server, what user agent do you use? Far too often have I seen things like: curl_setopt ( $c , CURLOPT_USERAGENT , "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)" ) ; In my opinion you should always use a nice descriptive user agent that explains to the server exactly what your client may be trying to achieve, or at least a unique identifier

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Importance of User Agents

I get countless e-mails, and it makes it so much worse when I get absolute rubbish sent through to me from friends and family members alike. Let me quickly explain the top reason why you forwarding an e-mail is my problem. Have a look at the e-mail you’re forwarding

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Stop Forwarding E-Mails

Came across this video (via The Register), and being a father of a 5 month old beautiful daughter, this video really hit home for me. Seeing the lifeless infant after the accident, the motionless stare, was just horrible to watch. Warning : This video is not suitable for minors! This video is just a dramatisation, but is a realistic representation of what could happen if you use a mobile phone whilst driving

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Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Phone Whilst Driving

I’ve been using the released version of Windows 7 for about 4 days on and off now and have to say it seems to be a massive improvement over Vista.

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Windows 7 64Bit – Impressions So Far…