March 2002 - Bloggle

Back to Work!

by deCadmus | Mar 27, 2002 | Meta

H.G. Wells doesn’t have a lock on time travel… ‘Course my trip through time isn’t measured in years, but in hours. Regular readers will have noticed a steep decline in both the number — and length — of posts recently. This is...

Kopi: Good to the last droppings….

by deCadmus | Mar 27, 2002 | Coffee

Good to the last droppings….The Washington Times takes a swing at reporting the curious tale [tail?] of Kopi Luwak… and gets it right! Long viewed as merely the stuff of urban legends, Kopi Luwak is real enough — and while a strange brew by most any...

Sometimes you need a better hammer…

by deCadmus | Mar 25, 2002 | Usability, Web/Tech

The current crop of web authoring tools don’t build standards-compliant pages. That is, unless you tweak them. And, there’s some hope for next-generation tools. Both brought to you by the fine folks at A List...

Tasting Two Loons Coffee…

by deCadmus | Mar 20, 2002 | Coffee

Today I’ve been tasting the coffees from the Two Loons Coffee sampler pack. In this segment, three of five. All coffees are drip-brewed with a Melitta filter cone. Burundi AA [27/01/0028]Tastes of strong black tea and tobacco… with an aroma that suggests...

Roasting coffee smacks of alchemy

by deCadmus | Mar 20, 2002 | Coffee

— coaxing gleaming, mahogany beans from curiously grassy, green seeds. There’s few things that make *this* alchemist happier than a bag of new beans to roast, and Steve Ackman at Two Loons Coffee in New Hampshire has come through with a very nifty sampler...

Unplugged, or Not?

by deCadmus | Mar 15, 2002 | Coffee

Has the world’s most-watched coffee pot been resurrected? Perhaps, if you read German, you can tell me… the Google translation leaves a little something to the...