Floblogg

Turns out, there is a demand for Madeleines in my office and as Plug and Play Tech Center in Redwood City is probably the only high-tech incubator West of the Mississippi with a Samovar, this is a good undertaking. I tried a receipe from
Essentials of Baking (Williams-Sonoma) that has the benefit of being simple and [...]

Mitch Ratcliffe posted a status analysis on eBooks - The first step of a long change on his ZD Net column. I read most of it immediately after I received Mitch’s email with the URL in the afternoon. We have been talking about eBooks longer than most people know they exist, so I owe him [...]

The eternal question “does size matter” always gets a strange perspective when you compare storage size, processor speed and the raw size of the plastic or metal case of the device. Apple just released the newest version of their phone software (iPhone 2.1) and while watching the 231 MB update slowly download over my 6 [...]

Et bientôt, machinalement, accablé par la morne journée et la perspective d’un triste lendemain, je portai à mes lèvres une cuillerée du thé où j’avais laissé s’amollir un morceau de madeleine. Mais à l’instant même où la gorgée mêlée des miettes du gâteau toucha mon palais, je tressaillis, attentif à ce qui se passait d’extraordinaire [...]

The evening ritual had settled in to first read Dr. Seuss: There’s a Zamp in My Lamp while sitting on the bed so she could pull, rotate and wiggle all the different tabs in the book and then I would move to the leather chair to sit under the reading lamp and continue with my [...]