Grilled deep dish pepperoni pizza recipe

I've been making a deep dish pepperoni pizza on the grill recently and I think I've perfected my recipe.  You should give it a try!

Ingredients

Mozzarella Cheese (2 cups)
Pizza Sauce (4-6oz)
Price-Rite Papa Sal's White Pizza Dough
Pepperoni (20-40 slices)
Olive oil (1 teaspoon)
Corn meal (2 tablespoons)
Flour as needed (approximately 1/2 cup)

12" cast-iron skillet

Instructions

Bring the dough to room temperature and remove from bag.

Preheat grill to 400-450 degrees

Coat both sides with flour, then spread out evenly to about 12-14" circle.

Prep the cast-iron skillet by coating inside sides with olive oil (use a paper towel), then sprinkle corn meal on the inside bottom.  Place skillet over medium heat on stove to pre-heat while following the remaining steps.

Place the dough circle inside the 12" skillet with extra rising up the sides.

Add pizza sauce and spread evenly.

Add cheese and spread evenly.

Place pepperoni over cheese to cover top.

Place prepared pizza in pre-heated grill on the grates and cook until the side-crust is browned, checking every 5 minutes.  It should take 10-15 minutes.

Remove from grill and cast-iron pan and let cool on a cooling rack for 5 minutes

Slice into 6 pieces and serve.

VIM folding when viewing large JSON files

I'm been lamenting the lack of a shell-based editor that has folding (aka collapsing) built in.  On a whem, I Googled if Vim could do it and behold, it can, it's native and it's straightforward!

When opening a file, give Vim some hints (might not be necessary)

:set filetype=json
:syntax on

And tell Vim to turn on folding

:set fdm=syntax

At this point, everything will be folded/collapsed.  To unfold, the current marker, use zo.  To fold the current line, is zc.  To unfold all, zO to fold all, zC

Nice elegant solution

Further documentation I'm looking at to understand other features.

:help fold-commands
:help fdm

Eclipse Dynamic Web Project complains about wrong Java version

I was having lots of Maven + Eclipse problems.

First, I was getting errors saying "java.lang.Object" was not found.  I examined by project build path and noticed that there was nothing. I added a Library, made it a Java JRE System Library and saw those errors be replaced by hundreds of other errors about missing objects.

Came to realize that I was missing my Maven dependencies in my build page.  A simple Maven->Update Project correct these missing dependencies.  Right click the project, then select Maven->Update Project.

Expecting all my problems to be resolved, I was greeted by more obscure errors:

Eclipse dynamic web module 3.0 requires java 1.6 or newer

After much trial and error I found the solution.  I updated my POM file to have the following content:

onematch

   

       

       org.apache.maven.plugins

       maven-compiler-plugin

       3.1

       

           1.7

           1.7

       

   

   

This apparently reminds Eclipse that, yes I really am using Java 1.7, and allows the DWP to be configured without error.  Yay.

HBO Intermission music and video in the early days of HBO

I distinctly remember watching intermission programming on HBO between regular programming when I was a kid.  We didn't subscribe to HBO, but during their free-trial weekends, I would watch as much as I could.
I recall turning on the TV and either seeing a movie or hearing this "weird" music.  I vaguely remember them also showing calming color patterns along with the text showing upcoming programming.

It always wondered what the music was, and I've finally figured it out after many Google searches.

The music is Brian Eno's - Music For Airports.  Specifically track 1/2.

I'd call it haunting and memorable.  Exactly how I remember it.

Progress report (old post, out of date order)

All of the carpeting is out and all of the walls are down, the last one was next to the furnace and water heater and came down on Saturday night. The partiers on the street looked perplexed to see me carrying out rolls of old carpet and old 2x4s at midnight.

We're trying to get an estimate on cleaning up some plumbing that is running in front of a basement window.

Comfort Windows and Doors is coming on Wednesday to insulate the band joist and sill plate area. This should prevent a lot of air infiltration and make the basement less drafty and lower our heating needs.

New water heater is installed and pumping out the nice warm showers.

Reconstruction is expected to commence next weekend, starting with insulating the above-ground portion of exterior walls and, then framing the walls.

Pictures coming soon!

Right Coupon is the Wrong Malware unless you get the the right cleaner.

I noticed one day a LOT of ads were appearing in my Google search results page, along with the fine-print "Ads not provided by this site".  Wondering who was supplying them, I started doing some research which yielded even more ads including coupon slide-out widgets.  Oh crap, I have some adware/malware...

Being a fan of Nick Francesco's computer show, I immediately went to Security Tango at http://securitytango.com/ as I've heard that it is the definitive solution to removing viruses, malware and adware.  The steps boil down to rebooting in safe mode and running a bunch of programs.  Then rebooting and doing it one more time to be certain.

I diligently when through the first time, performing each step as instructed.  When the programs found some infections and cleaned them, I was relieved.  I decided I didn't need to run through a second time.  I rebooted back to normal mode and ran my tests.  Bad news, RightCoupon was still presenting ads on my pages.

So, I guess I do have to do the second pass.  I reboot to safe mode, perform all the steps in the first pass, reboot to safe mode, perform all the steps again.  Whew.  Finally done (6 hours later)

I reboot to normal mode and ran tests again.  Bad news, RightCoupon was STILL adding ads to me pages!

I did some painful googling (try to find the results when you're getting served dozens of third party ads), and found a page suggesting using the free AdwCleaner to remove RightCoupon.

I installed and ran it, and it like, the Security Tango found a list of infections and cleaned them up.  No safe mode, no 5 step program, no two passes to be sure.  Just run it, then reboot.

I ran my tests again, and Ahhhhhhh.  They're all gone now.   Thumbs up to AdwCleaner.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

Classic bread recipe

1 cup water 120 degrees

1 cup buttermilk - room temperature (substitute 1 tbsp lemon juice and milk to make 1 cup)

.25 cup olive oil

1.5 cup wheat flour

4 cup bread flour

.5 cup sugar

2 large eggs beaten

1 tbsp salt

4 tsp yeast (room temperature)

Mix liquids.  Add wheat flour and mix with wooden spoon until smooth.  Add sugar, mix.  Add eggs, stir until smooth.  Add salt, mix.  Add yeast, mix.

Add .5 cup flour at a time, mixing until absorbed until it becomes too hard to stir.

Pour flour on counter and continue to add more flour, kneading dough for 8 to 10 minutes.  Dough ball should be elastic and slightly sticky.

Place dough into lightly oiled bowl and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour.

Pour onto floured surface and degas.  Cut dough in half and form into two rectangles.  Place rectangles into greased 5x9 inch loaf pan.  Cover and let rise until dough crests pan.  45-60 min.

Bake at 375 degrees for 30-35 min.  Remove to wire rack immediately.  Internal temperature should read 180 degrees.