For Tiger OS, but probably works for Leopard, too. This is a method I saw on a Slashdot page regarding making an ISO disk image, and it completely works from the Terminal application.

So something I've been doing more and more, lately, is more cooking and baking. I have a page over at RecipeZaar.com. There you can see my recipes and reviews and photos and so on.

So bread making is one of the big things I've been trying lately. I've actually made yeast bread four times now. And we've even eaten the results! I do not have a bread machines or stand mixer with a dough hook, so I have to make them completely by hand...

If you have your own website, and want to put your own movies on it, one way is to use a third party free service, such as YouTube or Google Video.

But what if you don't want to use a third party service like that with the accompanying advertising? Well tonight I learned how to make my own movie for my site...

So, the L.A. Marathon ... It was race day: Sunday March 4, 2007. I had run the Pacific Shoreline Half-marathon in 1:42:00 only 4 weeks ago--a 7:47 average pace--which would seem to indicate that I could do a sub-four-hour marathon. But I had been injured only a few days after that, with some kind of groin injury on my left side. 3.5 weeks of not really being able to follow the training schedule, not being able to do the 20-miler 3 weeks before the race, and continuing to try and run, but never being able to go more than 7 or 8 miles without hurting my groin again. I was wearing custom inserts prescribed by my orthopedist, to correct for a leg-length difference. But I was beginning to be unsure whether they were really helping me or hurting me. Two weeks before the marathon, I stopped wearing the custom inserts and seem to have been getting better since.

I also ran very little at all the week before the marathon...

So yesterday was the 2007 OC Half Marathon from Newport Center up to the Irvine Spectrum. Actually, there was a full marathon too, but I'm saving that for March in L.A.

Here we were at about Mile 7 (a little over half-way through the race). I'm afraid I'm blocking Miriam from view. Oops!:

We were expecting a cold morning (for Southern California) yesterday...

Friday night we (hubby and I) tried out a new restaurant...well, new to us. The Gaucho Grill is an Argentinian Steakhouse, is located in downtown Brea, California, directly across the street from the Edwards 10 West Theaters.

We arrived just before 7 pm on a Friday night, and at that time there was plenty of seating available. We were shown to a roomy booth near the back of the restaurant. In addition to the regular menu, they also had a seasonal menu.

Everything on the menus looked yummy and tempting, so it was hard to decide...

Recently at the Farmers Market in Claremont on Sunday, I bought a small 1-pound bag of fingerling potatoes. (There is a small booth there that seems to specialize in these.) So, now I had to find a good way to cook them...

OK, I haven't talked about it here, but I recently started running. OK, recently means back in December/January. I've run a few races...three 5Ks and a 10K, and somewhat decent times (for my age group).

Anyhow, as recently as a month ago I said I'd never do a marathon. Just sounded like too much. But, I guess it's not, since not only have I signed up to run the L.A. Marathon in March 2007, but also I've found the new champion of "too much"