The L1pht 0ffensive Brewery is starting to take shape with the addition of a keggle hot liquor tank. For anyone thinking of doing a keg to kettle conversion it’s incredibly easy. Grab your keg, an angle grinder, a drill and a hole saw that will allow the valve to be mounted.

Draw a circle on the top with a Sharpie. Fire up the angle grinder and go to town. My go at it had sparks flying, so be sure to shield children or that pile of oily rags.

It shouldn’t take more than an hour to cut and sand the edges so that they don’t shred the brewer’s arms.

I used a 7/8″ hole saw to drill a hole in the keg 3 3/4 inches from the bottom of the keg. Adding lubrication for this cut is suggested to reduce wear on the hole saw. My valve is a weldless valve from Northern Brewer. I will say I have a small, but annoying little leak which I plan to take care of ASAP, but the HLT does hold water and the leak shouldn’t keep us from brewing.  Pictures after the jump… Read more…

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A while ago I put out a tweet inquiring as to how people where going about the task of downloading examples (lots) of a specific filetype from teh internetz.  I got a couple replies, which I certainly appreciated.  The most interesting of which came from @shawnmoyer related to @rwnin‘s tool ‘datapyning‘.  rwnin’s script definitely has some strengths, particularly regarding surgical searches related to specific domains.  I wanted a troubled little script that didn’t require much care and had a little more “dice roll” type attitude.  If the utility I describe below doesn’t fit the bill, you might check out datapyning.

My criteria looked more like this:

• Must be able to pull a large (until disk reaches capacity) number of files
• Must run unattended for long periods of time
• Must be able to pull files based on regex for URL
• Must allow me to determine all known URLs where a particular file was found Read more…

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