Archive for October, 2005

wipe off that drool!…

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

As of last Tuesday’s Epicure liftout in The Age, everyone is discovering food blogs.
I’m a food lover - a bit of a cook - mostly an eater, who has long enjoyed the vicarious pleasure of food blogs. The epicure article was pretty good, highlighting a bunch of great blogs - some I’ve already seen, many […]

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go and poo somewhere else…

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

The building I work in is beautiful. Very old, very grand, sorta gothic sandstone. My office has real windows we can open and there are lawns outside the window. Alas, old buildings are expensive to maintain, the sandstone parapets are broken in places and the facade is cracked and flaking - mortar and finishing are […]

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errata…

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

I admit it, I was wrong. Some time ago when I first ‘discovered’ social tagging I weighed up the pros and cons of the offerings. Well, there were really only two choices at the time - Connotea was far too highbrow for me - so, was I going to Furl or Del.icio.us?

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flock to this…

Friday, October 21st, 2005

Sorry, inexcusable pun - I would never make a sub-editor! On the other hand, if you like new toys, you should take a look at flock, a new mozilla based browser, with active hooks for posting to blogs (I’m writing this entry from within the browser) and sharing bookmarks. It integrates with delicious for bookmark […]

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the ring road

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

We have a ring road here in Melbourne, but it’s not much of a ring - more a half finished peanut shape, but it gets the job done I s’pose. Not like this one near Taranto in Italy, now this is what I call a ring road… it’s massive!
Actually, this whole area seems to be […]

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very old noodles

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Being a big fan of Chinese Food (inserts plug for our favourite local restaurant), and living in a very ‘Italian’ area of Melbourne, I have followed with some interest the debate about who invented the noodle. The Italians insist that Marco Polo introduced it to China, the Chinese argue the reverse. Even the Arab countries […]

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a naughty little cat

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

This is viv, our cat, with his tail up in defiance despite being well out of his comfort zone. You see, we’d just gone down the park for a quick kick of the football and he followed us all the way. I tried to catch him to take him back to the house, but he’s […]

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WE05

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

I suppose I’d better give into it… everyone else has blogged about WEo5, so I’d better do my bit. Not that it’s a chore at all - quite the opposite - this was the most informative and inspirational conference I have been to in years. No, the problems are: 1. where to start, and 2. […]

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that was a hot topic

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

I was there! at WE05 when Tantek Çelic had just finished his session and was about to take his first question… the fire alarm started!
Here we are piling out onto Harris Street, Ultimo in front of UTS, and yes, that’s me in the yellow sleeved t-shirt next to the tree. Told you I was […]

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