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This receipe was orginally in a newsletter from Heritage Park, but we’ve tweaked it a little bit. If you like corn, bacon or chowder, you’ll love this one. It makes about 4 litres.
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Google announced a new toolbar add-on a couple of days ago called Sidewiki that allows you to add your own comments to any webpage.
This new feature displays submitted comments in a sidebar next to the actual page. This isn’t an entirely new idea — a similar concept that used PostIt-Note-like overlays was tried several years ago by another company, but met with outrage and ultimately failure.
Of course, this failed attempt was well before the viral adoption of social networking. Today, the concept of group collaboration and multiple minds generating content is accepted and embraced by millions, as is the ability to provide product or service feedback.
The ability to add this feedback directly on any website, however, will be interesting, as disgruntled consumers happily post their frustrations right next to the product or service that is being marketed to others.
To read more, see the official Google Blog post.
When I bought a Kona Dew Plus late last year as a cheapy backup commuting bike, I didn’t plan on making any changes to it.
Then, something strange happened - the Kona started to become my daily ride. The cheapest, ugliest bike I’ve ever bought became my (almost) favourite bike.
It’s the perfect commuter bike — it’s inexpensive (I paid about $400 new), has front and rear disc brakes, 700mm road wheels and being painted a rather metallic minty green, it’s hardly a theft magnet.
Pretty funny video poking fun at courier wannabes and roadie bike snobs.
When I unpacked my two brand new mobile tool bases, I thought I’d be up and running within about 20 minutes or so. If they’d come with assembly instructions, or even a good clear picture, I’m sure that would have been the case. Nope… Trying to track down instructions online didn’t result in anything other than lots of “how do I assemble my mobile tool base” questions.
So, after plenty of head scratching, cussing, unbolting and rebolting, more cussing and then unbolting and rebolting again, I’ve come up with a set of instructions that made the second assembly go much faster. Your particular mobile tool base assembly may vary slightly, but hopefully this info will help make it somewhat easier.
I’m a long time family pass holder of Heritage Park, and I think it’s one of the best values for family outings in the city.
However, over the past year or two of the major construction at Heritage Park, I’ve been really disappointed with their lack of concern with the safety of pathway users next to the park.
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