Just before I mixed up the barley and favas for dinner this morning, I read this article in the LA Times. It struck me as yet another misguided volley in the food morality wars.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Barley and Favas
It's been a nasty few weeks. I came down with some head cold thing the first week in March that is still clinging on. One major customer called a complete halt to all work and another announced an emergency project that should take two weeks and is being compressed into 4 working days. I have the day off today and I'm making a big grain and legume salad for dinner since the temperature in hovering near 80 degrees.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Food Experiment
Something I've been doing over the last few months is keeping a database of food purchases. I'm doing this for a few reasons.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
IE9 Final Release Review
Between the sorrows of my family and the sorrows of the world, I don't feel like writing very much, but I know that it is a habit like any other and to fail to do some encourages me to refrain from any. Technology blogging is simple-minded enough and gets people all worked up, so is a reasonable facsimile of thought for now.
The final version of IE9 came out on Monday and I've been putting it through its paces the last few days. I've watched the browser develop since the first platform preview last year and have liked what I've seen. I didn't expect the final version to be perceptibly better than the RC (Release Candidate), and have been nicely surprised that it is better - more stable, faster. Overall, if you run Windows 7 as your OS, aren't afflicted with Microsoft hatred, and aren't obsessed with having a bazillion widgets, plug-ins and add-ons, you should use this as your primary browser. The reasons I like it aren't really the BS that the chattering heads in TechnoNewz land like to yammer about.
The final version of IE9 came out on Monday and I've been putting it through its paces the last few days. I've watched the browser develop since the first platform preview last year and have liked what I've seen. I didn't expect the final version to be perceptibly better than the RC (Release Candidate), and have been nicely surprised that it is better - more stable, faster. Overall, if you run Windows 7 as your OS, aren't afflicted with Microsoft hatred, and aren't obsessed with having a bazillion widgets, plug-ins and add-ons, you should use this as your primary browser. The reasons I like it aren't really the BS that the chattering heads in TechnoNewz land like to yammer about.
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Revolution 2.Oh Dear
Well, shit. I spend a month mourning a death in the family and all hell breaks loose around the world. That'll teach me to take a break.
Count me among the jaundiced observers of everything from the protests in Madison to the civil war in Libya.
As someone who makes her living from creating and deploying large scale web-based collaboration sites and always thinking of new ways to incorporate differing communications modes into those sites, I'm distinctly unimpressed by the breathless rah-rah promotion of "social network" tools as some kind of key to a new kind of revolution. If you can Tweet it, they can track it.
Like, duh.
Count me among the jaundiced observers of everything from the protests in Madison to the civil war in Libya.
As someone who makes her living from creating and deploying large scale web-based collaboration sites and always thinking of new ways to incorporate differing communications modes into those sites, I'm distinctly unimpressed by the breathless rah-rah promotion of "social network" tools as some kind of key to a new kind of revolution. If you can Tweet it, they can track it.
Like, duh.
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