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Wedding Cheese
So, my blushing fiancée and I went to The Teddington Cheese to build a prototype wedding cakecheese pile. I took some photos for the benefit of florists, parents, future in-laws etc, and so I thought I'd post them here for the benefit of cheese fans, wedding fans and the happy intersection of the two that form subsets of my readership. Click ( Read more... ) -
The Physiology of Taste
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin is a legendary figure in gastronomical literature; a cursory scan through my cookery shelf sees him cited by Harold McGee, Hervé This and Jeffrey Steingarten, to name the first three that came to hand. An English translation of his masterwork, "The Physiology of Taste" is still in print. I was given a copy for my ( Read more... ) -
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WTF? Surely if you want an environmentally-friendly boat, you should just pick one with a sail? -
Market Oddities
So, it seems to be universally agreed that the 0.75% base rate cut announced today by the US Federal Reserve Bank was an attempt to stop global stock markets from continuing their recent sharp downward trend. It also seems to be agreed that the size of the cut is unusually large, and unusually timed, in that it didn't follow a regular meeting of ( Read more... ) -
Reasons not to buy a Dolphin bathroom.
Since we (well, terpsichore1980 purchased a new bathroom from Dolphin, which was installed just before Easter 2007, the following things have happened:- The grout and adhesive securing one of the floor tiles have cracked, leading to a pronounced wobble. (Now fixed by YT, but there are cracks around other tiles that need dealing with.)
- The radiator has come loose ( Read more... )
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Aero-hmmmm
"The worker also said the pilot had told him all the electronics had also failed."
But the 777 uses fly-by-wire.
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HOFs in Google Spreadsheets
I discovered the delightful inclusion of a "map" function ("ARRAYFORMULA") in Google Spreadsheets today. Those of you with experience programming in functional languages will appreciate the elegance of this, and of the other higher-order functions (HOFs), none of which have yet made it into the world of spreadsheets as far as I can determine, ( Read more... ) -
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Net Neutrality
"For that reason, net neutrality is a pipe-dream. We believe it is vital to put the customer in control of what takes priority on their line and we're already developing that capability," he said.No, you're developing the capability to impose arbitrary restrictions on the way people access the Internet. Giving people the option of paying you more ( Read more... )