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today is a wonderful day for fish ooohh yeaah!

i really love pesto, although normally it is made with basil and pinenuts in olive oil with salt and pepper and garlic, i will be using parsly, almonds and uncooked garlic, more like a herb aioli sauce thing.

parsly grows like mad usually and almonds are cheaper to get then pinenuts.

alright lets begin.

this stuff is very easy to adjust if your not sure if you will need more of any of the ingredients you can just add it later

first we will need some

• Oil, as much as you need to make it a paste or to your liking

i used rice bran oil because its what i had sitting around but i would strongly encourage a nice smooth olive oil for this because you use abit of it.

• Garlic, a couple of cloves

now some people dont really enjoy the spicy taste of uncooked garlic but its not that bad really its not. and its much much easier then giving them a quick roast or a fry. using too much is pretty intense.

alternatively you can chop a couple of garlic heads in half, poor on some oil and put in the oven until soft and sweet it removes the spicyness.

the best way to get other people to not be offended by your garlic breath is to make them have some garlic too!

• Pepper, to taste

gotta have pepper

• Salt, to taste

gotta have salt

• Parsly, quite abit of this. perhaps a handful or two

the parsly makes the main ingredient. a warning to happy people, this stuff sticks between your teeth

• Almonds

not quite as much oil as pinenuts and pretty dry, i would probably use hazel nuts if i had them sitting around.

put everything in a blender, i have one of those stick blender things, very useful btw.

blend it to the consistency you prefer adding more of anything you think it needs more of. dont be afraid to taste!!  will keep in the fridge for a couple of days.

great with pasta, meat and salads.

i hate bloody lcd monitors which say no signal and then i gotta switch the cable from dvi to rgb and back again. grrrr. its just too stupid to work.

ohms law. it is the law. it is the corner stone for working with electronics.

it deals with voltage (V), current (I (which you would hopefully be familier with as amperes or A)) and resistance (R)

but oh noes it is math, damn it XS. but dont worry it is very simple just use this triangle.

current = volts / resistance

and if im going to be lazy i think ill just redirect you to wikipedia

if i had an iphone i would use it to buy stock on the share market

if i had an iphone i would use it to develop applications and when i bored of that

i would run it over with a bulldozer mwahahaha

but that is only if i won the lotto with my lucky numbers 13 and 11 and got rich quick

Number 10: Its not Microsoft.

lately i have been playing with a common cathode (8 anodes, 2 ground) 7 segment display which i got from surplustronics.co.nz which by the way have very good prices for gear.

a 7 segment display is generally a figure 8 with a full stop like you see on those digital alarm clocks and most of them light up red but other colours such as green and blue are available too.

with 10 pins.  the two main types are common cathode and common anode, one having 2 ground and the other having 2 power. then the other pins go from either of those commons through a segment which is basically a LED (light emitting diode) to its own pin.

here (http://thelearningpit.com/lp/doc/7seg/7seg.html) is a useful site which helped me find out which pin lit up which segment.

generally good to use a resistor for each LED, and since these are diodes and diodes as they are only allow power to flow in one direction so if you wire these backwards they wont light up.

anyhow i am using 1k ohm resistors as it is pretty safe with 5 volts. but a couple of hundred ohms should be alright. here is a website that can calculator resistor values. http://led.linear1.org/1led.wiz i will talk about ohms law tomorrow.