# home made (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover home made. Page: Feed: --- ## [Grew Curry Plant from Seed](http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2026/08/grew-curry-plant-from-seed.html) _2026-08-22 · Aileen Apolo-de Jesus · An Apple a Day_ I've had a curry plant for a few years now. I was trying to buy lemongrass, but the garden nursery made a mistake and sold a curry plant to me. It's very tall now and has been producing berries. It usually just falls off or eaten by birds. The curry plant produced berries again, so I planted the seeds. I chose black ones, removed the flesh and placed them in 3 pots. Two pots of seeds without the… ## [Remembering Ninoy](http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2026/08/remembering-ninoy.html) _2026-08-21 · Aileen Apolo-de Jesus · An Apple a Day_ It happened a week before my birthday. I was only 7 years old, but I felt the tension and anxiety it brought. My parents required everyone to be home before sundown and they always gave reminders about the dangers of being outside. It was a chaotic time. I remember going to Fort Bonifacio where we paid our last respects. If I remember correctly, it was near the army hospital. When we went, the… ## [Throwback Thursday: Cebu and Davao (2005)](http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2026/08/throwback-thursday-cebu-and-davao-2005.html) _2026-08-20 · Aileen Apolo-de Jesus · An Apple a Day_ If I remember correctly, 2005 was the first time I visited Davao. I was still working for the yellow pages back then and I traveled to train sales. They moved provinces every other week and I'd be shipped to see them wherever they were. In August 2005, I chased them in Cebu and Davao. They were all bent to show me around since they deemed I was too sheltered (haha). In Cebu, they introduced me to… ## [Parenting in this Crazy World](http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2026/08/parenting-in-this-crazy-world.html) _2026-08-19 · Aileen Apolo-de Jesus · An Apple a Day_ When I got up yesterday, the first news I saw was the horrifying incident in Zamboanga. I quickly said a prayer and watched news clips. My heart breaks for the parents of school age kids. The world is entirely different from what it was when my child was younger. I cannot imagine how we'd cope. I spoke to my son briefly about what happened. I told him it was a good thing the internet wasn't as… ## [Started a New Project](http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2026/08/started-new-project.html) _2026-08-18 · Aileen Apolo-de Jesus · An Apple a Day_ Live had the fabric ina separate box for a year now and decided to bring it out to start the project. I did a similar one two years ago and it took two months to finish. I realized, piecing together one inch squares is backbreaking work. So I'm going to do this project differently. Miggy helped me choose the right fabric colors and I'm now working on cutting fabric! I hope I'll finish it sooner… ## [Correcting Issues from the Childhood Home](http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2026/08/correcting-issues-from-childhood-home.html) _2026-08-17 · Aileen Apolo-de Jesus · An Apple a Day_ Ondoy, 2009 While planning our future home, we made several lists: List of basic needs and must-haves Wish list Property red flags The list discussion lasted a couple of years. It started as a rough draft and evolved to a final list when we also chose our architect. It was important to give our architect a list of issues we experienced while living in my childhood home. Flooding Issues Basement… ## [An Important Lesson](http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2026/08/an-important-lesson.html) _2026-08-16 · Aileen Apolo-de Jesus · An Apple a Day_ It was Fr. Rene\* who taught me a very important lesson from Pope John Paul II - #BeKind #StaySafe ## [Alocasia Update](http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2026/08/alocasia-update.html) _2026-08-15 · Aileen Apolo-de Jesus · An Apple a Day_ Last March, I decided to re-pot a plant that grew out of a pot we got from Mom's garden. The leaves looked nice, so I didn't remove it. It grew and I eventually looked up what it was. Alocasia. Oh! I remember the plant became popular during the pandemic. I was happy for the free plant. It's been 5 months and I have two pots of alocasia now. Three weeks of rain has encouraged it to grow bigger! I… ## [Brunch at Conti's](http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2026/08/brunch-at-contis.html) _2026-08-14 · Aileen Apolo-de Jesus · An Apple a Day_ We had the chance to try Conti's all day breakfast. I usually order the baked salmon and tbh I wanted to order it again, haha. I told myself to try somewhere new, so I ordered their pork tocino. It's interesting to try this staple sulit across restos. I was surprised since Conti's tocino wasn't red! I even thought it was tapa. It was definitely tocino made even better when you eat it with vinegar… ## [Some Forgotten Moments](http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2026/08/some-forgotten-moments.html) _2026-08-13 · Aileen Apolo-de Jesus · An Apple a Day_ It's throwback Thursday again. I made time to scan some old photos. I want to finish the album I've been scanning since last month! I think I scanned 60 photos in 2 hours. I have an old printer, so it really takes time. It was satisfying to scan this batch from the album because it reminded me of that time we were complete (as a family) for Miggy's birthday. Good thing I took photos of the cake… ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fBeXNskBdqzX) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [My 80-year Old Heart](http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2026/08/my-80-year-old-heart.html) _2026-08-12 · Aileen Apolo-de Jesus · An Apple a Day_ A decade and a half ago, my cardiologist said I have a 70-year old's heart. He said after surgery everything will improve. I had mitral valve repair 13 years ago and I enjoyed it until late 2018 when I had a pulmonary embolism. Things went downhill from there since my lungs were affected. And now I'm (over)due for mitral valve replacement. The surgery has been postponed several times and now we… ## [Made a Sewing Machine Cover (with a Cat!)](http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2026/08/made-sewing-machine-cover-with-cat.html) _2026-08-11 · Aileen Apolo-de Jesus · An Apple a Day_ Making a new sewing machine cover has been on my to-do list for 3 years now. We were still in Singapore the last time I made one and I made it by hand. I've learned a few tricks since then and made this one mostly by machine. I embroidered some parts which is why it took longer than I expected. Anyway, I did the cat first and made the base really simple. Just huge strips of denim-like fabric. I… ## [Measured efficiency of a small, novel electric kettle](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/109.html) _2026-07-31 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ This article reports empirical measurements of the efficiency of a small, novel electric kettle heating a small amount of water to a temperature below boiling point. ## [Historical cancer incidence surveyed in a book on diet](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/books/taubes.html) _2026-06-28 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ Extracts from a chapter titled “Diseases of civilization” in a 2007 book, ‘The diet delusion’ (or ‘Good calories, bad calories’) by Gary Taubes. The extracts discuss medical surveys and reports from the nineteenth and early twentieth century which showed that cancer was increasing in Europe and rare in people not exposed to European (or US American) influence. ## [Measured efficiency of a gas hob heating water](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/108.html) _2026-06-05 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ This article reports empirical measurements of the efficiency of a gas hob heating water to a temperature below boiling point. ## [A low-tech countermeasure to high-tech bugging?](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/107.html) _2026-04-30 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ This article presents an untested idea for countering audio evesdropping of a conversation between two people. The idea is to use a flexible plastic pipe that leads directly from the speaker's mouth to the listener's ear. ## [Leatherwork Adventures](https://sowen.com/1421/leatherwork-adventures/) _2026-04-09 · Spencer · sowen.com_ A while ago, YouTube started recommending some ASMR videos of leatherwork being done. Handbags, laptop cases, wallets etc. It was fascinating to watch a leather hide being turned in to wonderful objects through the skills, craftsmanship and obscure processes. Over time I began to recognise the individual steps involved and wondered how hard can this \[…\] ## [The ring-necked parakeet, a new-comer established in Birmingham by 2025](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/106.html) _2026-03-31 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ The photographs here show ring-necked parakeets (Psittacula krameri) in in the suburbs of Birmingham, England in 2026. This bird is a new arrival and was unknown in Birmingham last century. Indeed, I had never seen one in Britain before Birmingham in 2025. ## [Sizing sheet material for a solar conical concentrator](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/103.html) _2026-02-28 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ An earlier article contained ideas for a solar cooker with a conical reflector. This article continues by deriving the sizes of sheet material needed to make a given size of conical reflector. ## [UPDATE to Sizing sheet material for a solar conical concentrator](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/103.html) _2026-02-27 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ This article deriving algebraic expressions for the sizes of sheet material to make a conical solar reflector has been updated by the addition of a section applying its formulae to a particular case. This uses a tubular aluminium hoop bought in Britain from a gardening supplier to define the rim. ## [Screen Share With Real Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/TFMjhDoFvRio) _2026-02-27 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control — open source, like Screenhero. ## [Search cambridgeclarion.org](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/search.html) _2026-01-26 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ For the first time cambridgeclarion.org has a site search engine. It uses free open-source software to make a local search without using third parties, meaning that the search remains private. ## [A book about an investigation into police shooting unarmed victims dead in 1980s Northern Ireland](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/books/stalker.html) _2025-12-31 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ In a 1988 book, ‘Stalker’, John Stalker, the former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, wrote: “In May 1984 I was asked to undertake an investigation in Northern Ireland that very soon pointed towards possible offences of murder and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, these offences committed by members of the proud Royal Ulster Constabulary. I devoted two years of my… ## [A little egret photographed in England](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/105.html) _2025-11-30 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ The photographs here, show a little egret (Egretta garzetta) by a shallow stream in the suburbs of Birmingham, England. It looks like a small white heron. ## [Private Eye on the quashing of Colin Wallace's manslaughter conviction](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/pe1.html) _2025-10-29 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ “The quashing of the conviction against former army information officer Colin Wallace will come as no surprise to Eye readers, who have been reading about the case since issue 684 -- 4 March 1988.”... ## [A domestic gas pilot light's energy consumption measured](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/104.html) _2025-09-30 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ An on-demand domestic gas water heater uses a continuous 130 Watts for its pilot light while it is idle, according to measurements I made with the gas supplier's meter used for billing. ## [Memorising a stronger cryptographic key for the same effort](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/102.html) _2025-07-31 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ The method described in the 2018 article for memorising a cryptographic key allows someone to reconstruct any 128-bit number that they have been given to memorise. That article implicitly assumes that the number is the cryptographic key itself. This article describes a way to use the same memorisation method with an alternative approach to cryptographic key derivation which has two advantages. ## [Experiences memorising cryptographic-strength secrets](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/101.html) _2025-07-29 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ This article reports experiences memorising secrets strong enough to be cryptographic keys, meaning those with 128 bits of entropy. ## [Authenticating a public key from a globally unique name continued](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/100.html) _2025-05-30 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ This article presents a small advance in the concept described in the 2024 article ‘Authenticating a public key from just a name - a feasibility study with GPL code’ ## [Safe and cheap DIY gutter inspection on a two-storey house](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/99.html) _2025-04-30 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ This article describes a cheap home-made tool for inspecting the gutters of a two-storey house from the safety of the ground. The idea is to mount a mobile phone on the end of a long pole and record a video while walking it along the gutter. ## [Biblical lampstand in an ancient Roman carving](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/98.html) _2025-03-31 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ A stone carving on the ancient Arch of Titus in modern Rome depicts an object shaped like the gold lampstand for the Israelite tabernacle described in the biblical book of Exodus. This article presents a photograph from a book and quotes part of the biblical description. ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ecONxnNKoBtP) _2025-03-31 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [Intercept of Princess Diana's phone was retransmitted repeatedly](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/books/4.html) _2025-02-20 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ Quotations from a 2002 book by a British police inspector who was personal protection officer to Princess Diana. ## [An insider's angle on USA's 1997 refusal to sign land mine treaty](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/books/3.html) _2025-01-24 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ Two paragraphs on the refusal in 1997 of the USA's president to sign an international treaty to ban land mines. This is an extract from a 2003 book by Sidney Blumenthal who notes that his job title in the American White House was “Assistant to the President” and that he was described in a contemporary press report as “White House communications strategist”. ## [YouTube's fraudulent adverts for electric heaters](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/97.html) _2024-12-05 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ In Britain in January and February 2024 YouTube was showing fraudulent adverts for electric heaters. These included claims such as “It can warm up rooms in minutes, costing only a few pennies per day.”, “uses less energy than non ceramic heaters”, “used 89% less energy compared to regular heating systems”. The adverts linked to websites that declared a business address in Lithuania. ## [Two figures of speech common to Isaiah and the Cyrus cylinder](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/96.html) _2024-11-08 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ The ancient cuneiform clay artefact in the British Museum called the Cyrus cylinder and the biblical book of Isaiah use similar phrases or imagery in relation to Cyrus: taking him by the hand, and calling him by name. ## [The technique of injecting lies to discredit a story](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/95.html) _2024-10-03 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ The idea of discrediting an otherwise true story by revealing lies previously infiltrated into it is illustrated here with actual reports that might represent applications of this putative technique. ## [Disguised contract murders in a 2020 non-fiction book](https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/books/2.html) _2024-09-01 · Stephen Hewitt · Cambridge Clarion_ A review of an anonymous book ‘I am a hitman’ that purports to be the story, told in the first person, of an ex-military British murderer for hire who had so far escaped justice and wrote: “You're never going to know who I've killed as I always ensured my targets did not appear to have been murdered”.