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Civilian ft. sinisterstuf — Venom

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My brother (Civilian) and I recently recorded this rap song, Venom, which you can listen to on soundcloud. We also made a music video which you can watch below or on youtube. This is the first song + music video we’ve released to the public and we’re trying to promote it as much as possible, I hope you enjoy it and will support us in this!

You can download the music video in MP4 format ➡Venom (Music Video) and the audio track in OGG format ➡Venom (Audio Track). Both downloads are available for free!

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The End of a Great Blog

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To my great dismay, K. Mandla has decided to discontinue K.Mandla’s blog of Linux experiences.

K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiencesI first came across it when it was mentioned in a post on another blog I was looking at, which challenged readers to try to use their computers without the Graphical User Interface for just a day! I accepted the challenge and after using Arch Linux for the first time and reading around on K. Mandla’s blog for a while I learned a lot about powerful and efficient ways of using the computer and giving use to low-end hardware. K. Mandla talked about things like  lessism vs minimalism and maximalism, a word that might better describe his idea of minimalism, and I agree.

His blog was a great resource for people who keep things light and get the most out of the technology they have. It has a huge list of software and a wiki too. He used to post very regularly, about once a day, but although the site is still online, he won’t be making any more additions. This was without a doubt my favourite blog, probably the only blog I actually read. I’m not sure I’ll ever write that much on here, I haven’t even written anything for the last 4 months or so, but I somehow hope I can carry on what K. Mandla started and share my useful ideas and information with you.

“Be kind to one another. We’re all we’ve got.” —K.Mandla

3 Minute Brownies

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I think I need to apologise for my recent quietness, I was working on 2 big projects which I learned a lot from, maybe even things that I’ll post about here for the geekier people following my blog to read, and (maybe more importantly) so that if I ever need to remember something cool/useful that I learnt doing this, I can read to remember it.

One really nice but unrelated thing that I learned during my hiatus was how to make 3 minute brownies in a cup! The Anonymous internet were on an information sharing spree and this was one of the things being shared. My family and I have really enjoyed this so I hope you will too. Here’s the picture I got with all you need to know:

Recipe by Pictures: 3min Brownies

To save this from being a somewhat redundant post where no value is added I’d like to mention that you should not be shy when adding the oil/milk unless you like dry brownies and that if you are preparing more than 1 cup you might like to increase the time on the microwave or do them one cup at a time otherwise you end up with a cup of un-baked chocolate goo, which is arguably not such a bad thing… I have yet to test if the cocoa can be safely substituted with Milo. If you don’t have any cocoa you can use Milo. I have tested this and the result is a bit strange but I think you can still call it a brownie.

Hello World!

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Well, as my first post on my first blog, this isn’t really about anything in particular, but rather just to serve as an introduction to those who might not yet know me. Although I’m sure most of the people who come here will know me in person, if you Google sinisterstuf, that same sinisterstuf who fills the first 238 of search results (last time I checked) is me!

This isn’t going to be the typical blog of my opinions on life, the universe & everything that everyone else seems to do, although I might occasionally do something like that, I think I’d much rather make this a place where I can share interesting things that I’ve learnt with the world! And if you though this is going to all be a computer related I’m sorry to disappoint you; although I do know quite a lot in that area, I’ll be sharing as much as I can about everything else too, things I’ve learnt about making music, entertainment, languages, maybe even the occasional extreme sport, there’s so much I’ve done that I just feel I need to share it and this is going to be the place so if you’re interested then stay tuned or follow the Blog or whatever it is you do, and get ready to open your mind and learn new things!

I’m looking forward to sharing and if you have any comments or suggestions or anything you think I could cover here for you then go ahead and share back! Ran out of things to say so I guess that’s it for now… Check for my next post on how to make river graphs for IB geography easily!