28 Feb 2006

Basic Pancakes with Sugar and Lemon from Delia Online

Pancake Day usually heralds the end of a long winter and we can look forward again to spring. Every year there are people making pancakes for the first time, and I admit it can be a hazardous affair if you don't know the ropes. So here is my tried and trusted pancake recipe, and once you get into the swing, you can make loads extra for the freezer.

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27 Feb 2006

Interruptions eat up a quarter of the workday - The Boston Globe

You sit down at your computer to get some work done.But there's an e-mail that just came in. Should you check it? Really quick?Then the phone rings. After a few minutes, you try to refocus. But the person in the cubicle nearby is talking -- loudly -- about the weekend. Then somebody stops by your desk ''to ask a quick question."

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A 184-proof whisky, and that's no blarney - Yahoo! News

Following a 17th century recipe, one of the eight artisanal whisky producers on the tiny Scottish isle of Islay will produce a dozen barrels of 184-proof whisky, the company announced.

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26 Feb 2006

Digital Myths and Realities

Read any print or online photography magazine and you’d think that digital photo capture is the ‘second coming’ – that photographic history will now be divided into BD (before digital) and AD (after digital).

Read more at www.naturephotographers.net

9 Feb 2006

FANTASY COMES TRUE FOR THE HOGFATHER

He is the best-selling fantasy fiction author from the West whose mysterious tales are loved by millions of bookworms the world over. Now, for the first time, one of the stories from Wiltshire-based Terry Pratchett's hugely popular Discworld series is to be adapted into a TV film.

Read more at www.westpress.co.uk

8 Feb 2006

BASIC CHEESE MAKING

INGREDIENTS TO TURN ONE GALLON OF MILK INTO ONE POUND OF CHEESE one gallon freshest milk (the fewer bacteria present, the more predictable the cheese) 1/4 cup buttermilk (or ½ cup yogurt ) 1/4 tablet rennet (Here is the front and back of the rennet package.) salt

Read more at biology.clc.uc.edu/fank

BASIC CHEESE MAKING

INGREDIENTS TO TURN ONE GALLON OF MILK INTO ONE POUND OF CHEESE one gallon freshest milk (the fewer bacteria present, the more predictable the cheese) 1/4 cup buttermilk (or ½ cup yogurt ) 1/4 tablet rennet (Here is the front and back of the rennet package.) salt

Read more at biology.clc.uc.edu/fank

1 Feb 2006

Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams

After 145 years, Western Union has quietly stopped sending telegrams.On the company's web site, if you click on "Telegrams" in the left-side navigation bar, you're taken to a page that ends a technological era with about as little fanfare as possible:

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