I wrote a week ago about buying Belgian chocolate, and talking to the chocolatier and finding out about what goes into the average chocolate bar. We all know about the Chinese milk scandals involving replacing milk solids with melamine. If you go to your local supermarket and buy garlic, you will probably find that it [...]
Most people who know me, or who have read this blog for a long time, would know that I love to cook. In fact I would have to say that it is a passion. So much so that I have started writing a recipe book… It's not for mainstream publication. It is actually for friends [...]
Today’s “Rant” is about financial mismanagement, misguided economic directions and doom and gloom. There appears to be no way to convince the music business to pull in the reins. Globally, they have done more damage to human rights than Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Khan ever managed to destroy. With the Global Financial [...]
Many will have noticed that my extremely popular Top 50/Top 200 P2P listing is conspicuous in it’s absence over the last two weeks. Have I stopped collecting the statistics ? Nope, I analyse them every night before I go to sleep. So why, you may ask, am I not publishing the results ? [...]
In the space of a few months I have begun to evaluate everyone on two criteria; 1. Do they blog? and 2. How well do they blog? This mental process parallels what happened at the start of the internet as a widespread phenomenen. No website. (and even today there are those without….) No respect. So today? [...]
From Tokyo to Wellington, NZ – seems like that could be a major downshift. But it is not. From the hustle and bustle of Tokyo I came into Wellington today and went over to the post production unit owned and run by Peter Jackson. Its called Park Road Post. And it is amazing. The architecture [...]