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It can be hard to keep track of the various social networks that you want to post to. In particular I want to ensure that my Blog posts and Diigo saved links get reposted to Twitter and Facebook.
I used to have some complex set-up that worked intermittently. Now however, I’ve started using TwitterFeed which is much simpler to manage and seems pretty robust.
I have two feeds set up, one that reads the RSS feed from this blog and another that reads the RSS feed from my Diigo account. These both pass summary entries on to both Twitter and Facebook.
To make things slightly more complex, I also feed a summary of my Diigo links to my Blog on a daily basis using the tools on the Diigo web site. So I filter these entries out of TwitterFeed using their filtering facility.
Sounds complex but it is pretty straight-forwards to set up and it then just works.
Just been asked this question by an ex-colleague so I thought it would be good to do a write up.
There are a number of measurements that you can do to see the health of your router.
Firstly, you can measure whether the outside world can “see” your router. This does mean that you have to allow “pings” from the Internet which does slightly reduce your router security and so this feature is often turned off by default. I use some external services to monitor the availability of both my web sites and my router:
Each of these have both free and paid services. It is servermojo.com that I mainly use to ping my router.
Secondly, you may be able to turn on something called SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) in your router. This is a standard that allows monitoring of all sorts of information regarding servers, routers, etc. You will need to give the router an IP address of a PC within your network that will receive the information.
There are a number of free tools that allow you to monitor SNMP To monitor from within your home network, you can use PRTG or the free version of Kiwi Syslog Server.
SNMP will allow you not only to see that the router is alive but whether it is connected to the outside world (the WAN port), what speed communications it is using, how long since the connection came alive and many other parameters.
The key parameters to measure are:
If you are having intermittent router problems, these tools will give you the kind of ammunition you need to take to your ISP to encourage them to take you seriously and get the fault resolved.
Use a Steamer Basket to Reheat Leftover Turkey in Juicy Fashion
Use a Steamer Basket to Reheat Leftover Turkey in Juicy Fashion
All that sliced white and dark stuff in your fridge? The microwave and oven are just waiting to dehydrate it on your second (and third, and fourth) go-rounds. Heat it up with a bit of steam for the best possible leftovers.
Kitchen testers extraordinaire Cooks Illustrated offers this simple technique—simple, at least, if you have the pot and a steaming receptacle just big enough for it:
Microwaving or reheating leftover turkey in the oven often dries it out. To keep the meat moist, place slices of leftover turkey in a steamer basket set in a pot of simmering water, then cover the pot with a lid and check it every few minutes. The turkey heats up quickly and stays juicy.
Over at the TrackTalk forum for runners (of all places), we were inspired by one commenters’ idea: substitute the water for chicken or turkey stock/broth instead. You could possibly get nuts and add a small bit of lemon if you really wanted to recreate a fresh, steaming-hot bird experience.
What to do with all the potatoes, cranberry sauce, and other stuff? Try these leftover recipes, or simply roast them all into a panade.
Turkey Leftovers [Cooks Illustrated]