Archive for November, 2009
Of Baking: White Garlic-Herb Bread v0.2
TweetMy 2nd time baking. This is a garlic-herb bread with rosemary, thyme, basil and garlic. Folks, it’s not news to any of you that my cooking skills lack a certain something. So last night I tried for the first time to make french bread with an old bread machine I found in my parent’s home. [...]
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People of Key Largo, put down the booze.
TweetSeriously. This shouldn’t happen. At least you didn’t play porn on the screen.
Full StoryMonsters of Miami
TweetI know the video is well over a year old, but I thought it was an excellent video about a topic that has been covered often in the South Florida blogging community. It’s well worth your nine minutes of viewing time. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3999187&w=425&h=350&fv=]
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U.S. consumers pay more money for less.
Tweet Image by rq? via Flickr Honestly, that title can be used for almost anything. Health care, broadband, transit, you name it. So it really isn’t surprising when you see Fortune magazine‘s Jeffrey O’Brien feeling ripped off at the sight of American broadband. In South Florida, AT&T offers the following speeds and prices for DSL [...]
Full StoryEngadget calls out New Times for shoddy reporting. Turns into a back and forth.
TweetSome of my local readers may have not seen this spat between Engadget and Miami New Times. Tim Elfrink of the New Times wrote a piece on the two brothers of Psystar, the company that makes Mac clones out of PC parts for half the price of a legit Apple laptop/desktop. Young second-gen Cuban immigrants [...]
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Tweet Image via Wikipedia I’m out of town till Sunday in sunny Puerto Rico. I have a few posts scheduled but otherwise things will be quiet. I hope to be back with exciting news about a non-profit project I have joined. Stay tuned!
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Verizon Pays $2 Million For Poor Florida Service, or more reason why we need broadband competition.
Tweet Image via Wikipedia Verizon Pays $2 Million For Poor Florida Service Years of complaints ‘resolved’ by $2 bill credits… 09:00AM Wednesday Nov 11 2009 by Karl Bode tags: business · Verizon Online DSL While Verizon gets a lot of warranted attention for investing heavily in fiber to the home, the last few years have [...]
Full StoryGetting a Concealed Weapons License, Part II.
Tweet Image via Wikipedia At the beginning of October, I wrote part one in a two part series on what it takes to get a concealed weapons license (CWL from now on) in the state of Florida. The first part dealt with planning, requirements and qualifications. Basically a lot of paperwork. The most important part [...]
Full StoryThe ideal bike lane solution.
TweetTransit Miami posted images of the new bike lanes painted out on Coral Way and found them seriously lacking in design. I have to agree. Even the ones on Griffin Road in Broward don’t even at every street corner. While Felipe Azenha of Transit Miami has some very excellent ways other cities have improved their [...]
Full StoryTough love or just divisive politics?
TweetFolks, it’s no secret that opposing sides like to poke fun at each other over their stances on political issues. But I saw something the other day that has left me wondering what exactly my reaction was. Here is the image in question. This was posted on the Advanced Armament Corp.’s blog on Tuesday either [...]
Full StoryYour internet connection sucks and you know it.
Tweet Charter, Comcast, DSLi, Earthlink, SnappyDSL, Atlantic Broadband, AT&T, they all suck ass. Some more than others but suck none-the-less. We all complain about it but there really isn’t much we as consumers can do. Then this gem popped up. Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own ISPs may not [...]
Full StoryFlorida places four cities with the most Call of Duty pre-orders.
TweetSome background information for you. Amazon.com’s Call of Duty-est Town in America promotion features the towns that have the highest percentage of Release-Date Delivery COD:MW2 pre-orders. To calculate, we are using the most recent U.S. Census data for U.S. towns and cities with a population of more than 5,000 people, that have ordered enough copies for two [...]
Full StoryThe distant future of…
Tweet[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrva8NoMLM&feature=player_embedded] Rick over at South Florida Daily Blog posted a viral video about the ROLLTOP and asked if this is the future of laptops. His post got me wondering about the future of everything. It reminds me of how a typical conversation with a stranger turns to various technologies just because that’s how we are [...]
Full StoryWhat a mess. At least I didn't cause a fire.
TweetJust so you know, this post isn’t about Miami politics. But considering the title I can see why you would think that. No this is about cooking. I’ve covered food here before but always the kind at restaurants. You know, the good stuff. I tried my hand at making something for the first time in [...]
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