Today I learned the difference. Cocoa powder is a byproduct of chocolate manufacturing, and "hot cocoa" is made using cocoa powder. "Hot chocolate" is made with actual chocolate.

Quite Interesting.

I love where I work. :-)

I've fed several chunks of my writing into this thing, and it's most consistently told me:


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As you may be aware, I own a variety of Victorian-style vests, for use on special occasions. Gentleman's Emporium, my dealer, has rolled out some new ones, and restocked some old ones that I don't yet own. Here are some that I'm contemplating. Your thoughts?


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My sister has just graduated summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard. That amounts to the highest possible academic achievement at the undergraduate level. She has received the Knox Fellowship from Harvard, which is a full ride including living expenses to any graduate school in England that she chooses; she has chosen to pursue a Master's ( Read more... )

As you may have heard, Facebook has come under a lot of pressure to make its privacy settings both more robust (by making the default settings more conservative) and at the same time less complex (because various governmental bodies and NGOs say users are morons ( Read more... )

In case it's escaped your notice, Apple and Adobe are having a bit of a spat. A quarrel. A kerfuffle. Apple has consistently refused to support Adobe's popular Flash technology on the iPhone, iPod, or iPad. In response to grumblings about it, Steve Jobs (Apple's CEO and co-founder) wrote an open letter on the subject, defending Apple's position. ( Read more... )

As you probably know, I work for Pearson Education, the largest publisher of textbooks in the world. And unlike a lot of the rest of the economy, Pearson is doing fine - because recession or no recession, students still buy textbooks ( Read more... )

Though at various times I had doubts - serious doubts even - I think Pirates really did come together remarkably in the final push leading up to opening night. Once the memory kinks were ironed out we spent a lot of the last few days working hard on character and motivation, and nuances in the blocking and delivery. And it turned out really ( Read more... )

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