Everything Bagel Topping
2 teaspoons poppy seeds
2 teaspoons sesame seeds
2 teaspoons dried garlic flakes
2 teaspoons dried onion flakes
1 teaspoon kosher salt

Bagel Recipe
2 teaspoons of active dry yeast
1 ½ tablespoons of granulated sugar
1 ¼ cups of warm water
4 cups bread flour
1 ½ teaspoons of salt

1. Add the sugar to the water, stir to dissolve then add the yeast. Let it sit for five minutes until the yeast has activated.
2. Add everything else. Beat in a stand mixer with a dough hook attachment for 10 minutes
3. Remove the dough from the bowl, oil it lightly, then return it to the bowl and let it rise for one hour
4. Cut the dough into 8 equal pieces. Shape them into rounds, then use your finger to make a whole in the center and stretch it until you have a roughly bagel shaped piece of dough
5. While doing this, start a pot of water boiling. Let the dough rounds stand for 20 minutes covered in a warm place
6. Preheat the oven to 425ºF. Boil each of the bagels for two minutes on each side (as many as you can fit in the pot comfortably)
7. As soon as you remove them from the water, sprinkle them with the seasoning mixture. Do it quickly as they dry out fast and you need the moisture to make it stick.
8. Bake them for 20 minutes

Heat the milk to 90-100 degrees Fahrenheit. Stir in the yogurt and place in a non-reactive container (glass quart jar works fine) with the lid on loosely. Let it stand in a warm place for around a day. Once the entire mix takes on the consistency of yogurt it is ready to use. Mix in the flour and place back into a non-reactive container. Let it stand on the counter for 3-5 days. You want a sour smell, though an aroma similar to beer is not unheard of. Bubbles will form so make certain the lid is on loosely. Some separation is expected but the surface should be clear – milky. If it ever takes on a pink or reddish tinge, it has gone bad and should be discarded. This generally happens if the container was not clean and contained bacteria. At the end of the 3-5 day stretch it is ready for use and is considered a fed starter.

Sourdough bread
3/4 cup fed sourdough starter
1/2 cup lukewarm water
1 teaspoon instant yeast
1/2 tablespoon sugar
1 1/4 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups bread flour

I cheat and use a stand mixer with a dough hook. You can make this by hand and get a workout too. This recipe provides a fairly sour sourdough. If you prefer one with a milder flavor, use less starter and more water.
Mix the starter with the water, sugar, yeast, and salt, along with 1 cup of the flour. Blend this with the paddle attachment for around a minute, just to get rid of lumps. Scrape the paddle clean and then put on the dough hook attachment. Add flour and run on low speed. The goal is to have the dough form into a ball that does not stick to the bowl. You’ll need to turn the mixer off and occasionally check the dough to see how wet it is. Once you’ve gotten the proper moisture content, let the mixer run for 5 minutes on medium-low speed. Check the consistency of the dough at the end of five minutes and add more flour if necessary. Run the mixer for another 5 minutes on medium-low speed. After it’s all said and done you want a dough that is smooth and springs back when you press on it.

Let the dough rise in a lightly oiled bowl for an hour in a warm, draft-free place. When doubled in size, turn the dough out onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Spray the surface of the dough with water, then cover the dough with a stock pot or some other metallic object that is oven-safe. Heat the over to 425. Bake the dough for 10 minutes, then remove from the oven and spray the surface of the dough with water again. Cover with the pot/bowl and bake another 10 minutes. Remove it from the oven, spray it, cover it again and place it back in the oven for another ten minutes. At this point it should have baked for a half hour. Remove the bowl from the bread and let it bake for another ten minutes uncovered. The bread should be lightly browned when it is done. Remove it from the oven and let it stand for a half hour to cool off.

1. Mix 1 tsp baking soda with 1 cup sour cream and set aside
2. Blend 1 stick of butter (softened to room temperature) with 1 cup of white sugar until creamy
3. Add 2 eggs, one at a time, to the bowl while the beater is running
4. Add the seeds from 3 vanilla beans, and 1 tsp. vanilla and blend well
5. Into the wet mixture sift 1 1/2 cups cake flour and 1 1/2 tsp baking powder and fold in gently just to start it combining. I used five or six folding stirs to get this going
6. Fold in the sour cream mixture, trying to leave as much air in the mixture as possible
7. Bake in two 8-9 inch round cake tins, that have been buttered and floured, at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes

e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03
resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03 1G
lvreduce -L -1G /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03
lvextend -L +1G /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

2 sticks unsalted butter
healthy pinch of kosher salt…maybe 1/2 tsp
3-4 grinds of black pepper
3 cloves garlic finely chopped
4-5 shakes of smoked paprika
A few dribbles of adobo sauce from a can of chipotle peppers…maybe 1 tsp
juice and rind of one lime

I know it’s not terribly scientific but so little of my cooking is. Peel the corn husks back leaving them attached and remove the silk from the corn. Put them back together and soak the ears for around 30 minutes. Throw them on the cooler part of a hot charcoal grill and cook them for half an hour, turning them once halfway through. Let them cool for a few, shuck the corn, then put a little of the butter on it and eat.

#/bin/bash

SVN_PARENT=
SVN_BACKUP=
DATE=`date '+%F'`
TEMPFILE=/tmp/svn_backup.tmp

touch $TEMPFILE
ls $SVN_PARENT >> $TEMPFILE
DIR_LIST=( `cat "$TEMPFILE" `)

rm -rf $SVN_BACKUP/*.gz

for i in "${DIR_LIST[@]}"
do
        svnadmin dump $SVN_PARENT/$i | gzip > $SVN_BACKUP/$i.$DATE.svn.gz
done

rm -rf $TEMPFILE

1. Create a connector account in your AD that will be used to query username/password. I granted mine admin rights but you’re probably alright without them, it just needs to query.
2. Create a user group in the AD that will act as a container for authenticated users and the users than require SVN access into that group
3. Install Apache, PHP, and the mod_dav and mod_dav_svn modules.
4. Create your SVN repository (svnadmin create /foo/bar/repo)
5. On CentOS you should get a subversion.conf file that is already generated for you (not sure on Debian and its ilk) that you’ll need to edit. Here’s a template to use. This assumes your domain name is example.com, the group name you create is “svn,” the connector account is called “SVN CONNECTOR”:

LoadModule dav_svn_module     modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module   modules/mod_authz_svn.so

<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/virtualhosts/svn
        ServerName svn.example.com
        ServerAlias svn
        ErrorLog logs/svn.example.com-error_log
        CustomLog logs/svn.example.com-access_log common
        <Location /repository>
                DAV svn
                SVNPath /srv/svn/repository
                AuthBasicProvider ldap
                AuthType Basic
                AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off
                AuthName "This is your SVN Repository"
                AuthLDAPURL "ldap://DC.example.com:3268/DC=example,DC=com?sAMAccountName?sub?(&(&(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=person))(memberof=CN=svn,DC=example,DC=com))"
                AuthLDAPBindDN "CN=SVN CONNECTOR,DC=example,DC=com"
                AuthLDAPBindPassword "your connector password"
                Require valid-user
                Require ldap-group "CN=svn,DC=example,DC=com"
        </Location>

6. That’s it. Bounce Apache and then test your access to the repository using your domain credentials

Instead of content though, I’ll offer up a bit of geekery for you. If you use the built in LJ importer in WordPress it seems to pick and choose what gets set as private or password-protected and what gets set as public. This is of course problematic if you’re like me and keep most of what you post set to friends-only. Once you import your data, connect to your database and run the following query:

UPDATE `main_posts` SET `post_status`='private'

That’s it – you’ll mass set all posts to private and you’ll have luxury of time to go through the old entries and decide what you wish to make public and what you wish to keep private.