Via Kenny’s stepmom Lynn: Julia Mozvin of the New York Times tests the old theory that says you should never cook with a wine that you wouldn’t drink. Her conclusion? Cheap wine works great, sometimes even better than the expensive stuff.
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
This winter was the warmest on record worldwide. From MSNBC:
As for this winter, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the combined land and ocean temperatures for December through February were 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit above average for the period since record keeping began in 1880.
The report said that during the past century, global temperatures have increased at about 0.11 degrees per decade. But that increase has been three times larger since 1976, NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center reported.
I’ve been trying to decide how to host my photos, since I haven’t been 100% satisfied with Gallery 2. I was initially opposed to using Flickr because I wanted my photos to be well integrated into my site, but I started playing with it a couple nights ago. And of course it turns out there’s a whole slew of WordPress plugins for Flickr, including fAlbum, which I’ve been testing out a little and so far it seems awesome.
Flickr even has most of the features I’ve wanted in a photo-hosting solution, and it seems they have a great feedback loop/quick release cycle to boot. I was just complaining to Kenny yesterday that I couldn’t organize my photo sets into uber-sets (albums and sub-albums, in Gallery terminology), and today they released the feature (they call the uber-albums “Collections”). Sweet.
Now I just need them to give me the flexibility to choose which photo in my set is the “highlight,” as I used to be able to do in Gallery, instead of automatically using the most recent photo as the highlight.
I’ll unveil my Flickr page in a few days, when I’m finished uploading my thousands of pictures. If you really want to see it beforehand, it shouldn’t be too hard to find.
Kenny and I just booked tickets for a quick jaunt to Guatemala and Belize in mid-May. Time to start practicing my Spanish again!
I’ve been meaning to try Coco La Ti Da – the trendy new dessert spot in the Loveless Building just off Broadway – for a few months. Vidya raved about a great dessert experience there, and a former Microsoft employee that Kenny and I know even landed a job there as a baker.
Well, I guess I’ll never end up trying it – it seems chef Sue McCown has already thrown in the towel. Their website still exists (and features photos of many gorgeous desserts), but supposedly they’ve stopped answering the phone and potential business owners are already touring the space.