Category Archives: Personal

Tesco Finest Party Food

This blog post may sound like an advert for Tesco… In actual fact, it pretty much is.

I’m a member of Tesco’s Orchard Program. Through this program, I receive money off vouchers for products, and in return need to tweet on twitter, share on facebook, write blog posts etc. Also I receive club card points too which can be redeemed for cash.

For a company wishing to promote their brands further, I think it’s quite a good way to have lots of SEO and inbound links to your site.

I don’t really buy party food much, just once in a while for special occasions. So when the program opened up and I received the vouchers, I decided to splash out. (Why not.. It’s Christmas!) In the local Tesco, there was quite a large range of party food – all on a 3 for 2 offer. Price wise compared to the standard product, it’s a little bit more expensive, but nothing major (a couple of quid more). We purchased the following:

One thing I do like with Tesco’s products is the detailed allergy information. Some supermarkets are very vague with their information, but Tesco covers Peanut and Tree Nut Allergies very well.

All the products needed to be put in the oven. To our surprise, all products went in the oven at the same temperature (It is annoying when the temperatures need to be different for each product as some stuff doesn’t cook properly)

Taste wise, the products tasted good, a lot better than the standard product. The only downside was that the pies where a little soft. I’m not sure if this is due to design or the trays which they require baking in.

Would I buy them again? It entirely depends on the event. BBQ with friends round… No. Special celebration with family… Yes.

OpenBSD 5.6 released

Today shows the release of OpenBSD 5.6. Download OpenBSD 5.6

There’s quite a few changes but most notable is the inclusion of LibreSSL and sendmail is no longer default, it’s SMTPD. Head over to the website for a full list of changes etc.

Personally I prefer CentOS over OpenBSD, but it’s all down to personal preference as all in all, all Unix type systems are pretty much the same.

BASH Vulnerability – ShellShock

Last month I blogged about the newest vulnerability in BASH. This has an official name now “ShellShock” and looks to be exploited in the wild with the botnet Mayhem which is aimed towards Linux systems.

Unfortunately it’s not just web servers which are vulnerable. There’s lots of devices out there which use Linux web servers, from home routers to mobile phones and other devices.

I’d recommend anyone using a Linux based system to do the following tests and check to make sure their system is not vulnerable. Tests for Shellshock Vulnerability

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Get paid to shop

Dont really like using blogs for advertising, however a few friends and family have not heard of this, so here goes…

Services such as Top Cashback, Quidco etc allow you to get cash back when ever you buy something online.

There’s no guarantee that you will get paid, but every little helps. Typically you get like 5% back off what you buy.

Sometimes you can even get more cash back than your initial investment. For example depositing £25 on William hill got me £57 cash back.

Big wins are things such as sky, virgin media and insurance.