December 2010
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November 2010
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Server at Olivar: Did you want to look at dessert?
Me: No, I'm stuffed...
Server: Did you eat somewhere beforehand?
Me: No, I dunno, I'm just full... Maybe it's the weather...
Server: *Jokingly* It's so out of character!
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When this weather clears up...
… I’m going to miss my morning coffee and breakfast from Joe Bar…
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Video | Pressed duck at La Tour d'Argent | Life... →
Click through for a video, because it doesn’t have embed… =(
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I knew I was a coffee snob...
… But didn’t realise how bad. A cup of coffee bought at work will be unfinished at the end of my work day. A cup of coffee bought at Joe Bar or Vivace is gone in 15 minutes.
I swear the weather has nothing to do with it.
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Cranberries: Brandying!
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Will Windows Phone 7 Help Microsoft Get Its Mojo... →
A fairly good article about the company. My only grief with the article is the following line:
Only a company cursed by near infinite resources would even consider building two parallel future mobile operating systems at once.
Microsoft isn’t “cursed by near infinite resources”, as evidenced by layoffs (of which I was one, before being rehired), product cuts and divisional cuts -...
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Ezra Klein - Obama and Clinton →
Ron Brownstein compares his pre-midterm election interviews with President Bill Clinton in 1994 and President Barack Obama last week. The two men, he says, couldn’t be reacting more differently:
On the Sunday before the 1994 Republican landslide, I interviewed President Clinton on a fittingly dank morning in San Francisco. Sitting in the backseat of a surprisingly threadbare presidential...
