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Category Archives: food

The cookbook library is open

19-Nov-09

So, I finally added my cookbook collection to Delicious Library (or at least those items that my scanner would easily scan) and uploaded it to my site. There’s a link to it in the sidebar under esau’s cookbooks. Two things became obvious as part of this process: How easy it is to use Delicious Library [...]

Nine ways to make the Best Personal Library on the Whole Darned Web

19-Nov-09

Customers: Buy a copy of Delicious Library 2 Build yourself a blog (something good, flexible and easy, like WordPress on Dreamhost) Delicious Monster dev team: Show the user how to publish under their own template. Show the user how to publish their custom list view of books (not just the bandwidth mashing visual one). Allow [...]

Johnny Mnemonic eat your heart out

19-Oct-09

I’ve been back from my first trip to Japan for a week now, but I’m still unpacking the massive amount of stuff that Tokyo packed into my head in just for days. Meanwhile, here some ramen…. The first one comes from a ramen shop just by the Buddhist temple at Asakusa, Tokyo. It was plain, [...]

Vegetarians protest against meat eating. Meh.

14-Sep-09

Here’s a classic piece of wrong-end-of-the-stick, no-news journalism. BBC NEWS | England | Kent | Anger over school sheep slaughter. So a Primary School (5-11 year olds) in Kent (a traditional farming area) has a school farm where they raise animals and a parent is objecting that they have sent one of the sheep to slaughter. [...]

Midday. Barri Gotic, Barcelona.

11-Sep-09

Chorizo; salchichon; jamon; Russian salad; marinated olives; Estrella beer. I had lunch in a little cerveceria just a couple of blocks from the sea. My fellow diners were all clearly locals and as today was the National Day of Catalonia (more of which later) there were few workers or passes-by on this small street. I [...]