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Making, baking, and (un-)breaking things in Southeast Michigan.

eBay Phishing Scheme

February 9, 2006

Upon sitting down at my desk just now it appeared that I had email from an eBay user named ‘yuki668’ asking simply “Hello,do you accept PayPal?”. This seemed a bit fishy, so I decided to dig into it a little bit.

Come to find out, it’s the best made phishing scheme that I’d not yet seen. It appears to look like valid email from eBay, takes you to a look-alike login page, allows one to compose a reply, and even appears to send the message, then offering to redirect the user to My eBay and various other pages.

Here are some screenshots of this message and the hosted false pages:

· Original email from ‘yuki668’ asking a ‘question’.
· Fake eBay login page.
· Fake message composition page.
· Fake sent message confirmation.

I have to say, with my actively selling something on eBay, this almost fooled me. The way I knew it not to be right, is the original email message was sent, it didn’t say that it was a question about a particular item…

Anyway, here is the full header if the email, if you are curious: Continue reading: Clicky Clicky

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Pummelo!

February 8, 2006

Mmm… Pummelo!

That’s part of my snack from tonight. Within 45 seconds of taking this image I grabbed this piece and popped it into my mouth. Mmm… It’s almost like a mild grapefruit.

Also, it seems I’m not the only one who has taken an interesting picture of a pummelo: http://justinsomnia.org/images/pummelo.jpg

That one has a bit more squick to it, and my pummelo wasn’t nearly as fleshy-colored. But I still like my photo….

Although I did screw up and leave the ISO at 400, resulting in a loss of a good bit of detail. Ah well. I still think it came out okay…

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MovableType

February 7, 2006

Movable Type is pretty nifty once you get past the hurdles of getting the damn thing installed. It’s poorly documented and requires a lot of CPAN modules.

Ah well, at least it’s working. (No, not for me, although I may start to use it at some point.)

Also, I wish whoever was working on the AdSense module for Gallery 2.0 would finish it. I’d love to be able to allow people to add banners there. It might also finally prompt me to caption my photos properly and with keywords and such.

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Food.

February 6, 2006

That’s a good part of tonight’s dinner. Here is all of it. Yes, roasted crimini mushrooms on a baguette with extra sharp cheddar, Downey’s Potato Chips (made in Waterford!), and Bell’s Wheat Love Ale.

Here are some of the mushrooms before they were roasted.

Uhh, my beer is also coming along nicely. And I don’t feel like writing much tonight.

I did take this cool split-second photo of a bubble racing through the airlock when playing around with my macro lens and the camera, though.

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Java Stout

February 5, 2006

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~5.5 gallons of wort, boiling away.
(Click for more…)

So, what did today hold? Well, upon waking up I found out that was en route to my place to hang out during / help out with the beer brewing.

While waiting for her to arrive I did my best to prep ingredients as needed. While I should have started the mash at that time, it still worked out all right… Within a few hours the partial mash (and protein rest) were complete, and it was time to heat the wort for boiling.

Despite working out in the snow and ~20 MPH winds, boiling went pretty well. I had a couple of boilovers, but nothing too bad. I’m not sure why these happened, although it seemed that it may have been tied to whenever the wind would die down. The boilovers did result in some wort getting on the burner but hopefully this won’t be too hard (or necessary) to clean off.

The wort came out with a density (OG) of 1.073 which should make for about a 8% beer or so if my figuring is correct. It is now sitting on a milk crate in my bathtub and producing a bubble of CO2 through the airlock every 30 seconds or so, which for yeast pitching plus ~2 hours isn’t bad. Although that may be because I had made a nicely active 32oz starter….

Anyway, that’s today’s brewing activity, and hopefully while moving it into secondary in a week or so I’ll also add 15 fluid ounces or so of very strongly brewed Zingerman’s In-The-House Blend made in my recently acquired Aerobie AeroPress.

With any luck, people will like it as much as they did the Vanilla Stout (photo gallery retired).

(Hmm, I guess I don’t know if there is any Java beans in the blend, so I can’t rightly call it a Java Stout… May have to change that… Hmm…)

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Coffee / Java Stout?

February 2, 2006

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Hey everyone… I need a bit of an opinion if anyone is willing to give one.

A few months ago I made a rather successful vanilla stout which all of my friends rather liked. Black as one’s soul, wonderfully smooth, and just nicely carbonated.

Here is a photo of the beer with my dinner from a few nights ago.

I think I want to leverage that same recipe, but instead of adding vanilla, I’m going to add coffee. In particular, I’m thinking of adding half to one cup of strongly brewed coffee (basically espresso) in secondary. The way I’ll be brewing the coffee it’ll be strong, but not especially bitter.

The question I have is, how much coffee would you use? And how would you add it?

In my opinion, adding grounds or beans to the kettle will probably cause overextraction, leading to an especially bitter flavor from the coffee. Likewise with grounds in secondary…

But, what have you done? And what worked well for you?

Thanks!

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Tofu Hunan Style

January 30, 2006


Click for more photos of this meal…

This picture has been taunting everyone I’ve sent it to via AIM, so I figured I’d post it here.

That’s tonight’s dinner, menu item 705, Tofu Hunan Style’ from the wonderful China Gourmet at 21 Mile and Hayes. Actually, this is one of two Chinese restaurants that I’ll eat at… The other is Gourmet Garden, who’s amazing ‘bean curd skin with mixed vegetables’ was detailed in this LJ post which appears to have both disgusted and enthralled.

Anyway, it was really tasty, and I ended up having it with a fortune cookie and a pint of my Vanilla Stout. Quite a nice dinner.

Oh, and in other food-related things, tonight I cleaned my dishwasher using this stuff my mom gave me, called Dishwasher Magic. It’s a citric acid blend in a bottle, with a wax cap which melts to let it out. Well, my dishwasher is porcelain inside, so while it didn’t have a bunch of build-up, there were still mineral deposits on the metal parts and such.

Well, after using it, the trays roll a whole lot better. I can only imagine this is how it worked when brand new, back in 1991 or so. The washing mechanisms have always worked well, now it’s just cleaner and it rolls better.

Also, check out the Footie candy bar, as seen at Meijer. With a misogynistic message akin to it’s brother bar Yorkie, this bar exclaims NO WENCHES ON THE BENCHES.

Ahh… And to round out the evening, I finally put a IBM Model M in the car. This one was made in 1995 and should work just great… I just wonder how my coworkers will take it. Now, all I need is a Model M equivalent for my G5 here at home.

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