http://www.blork.org/blorkblog A Blog about Food, Montreal, and Me Sat, 10 May 2008 20:32:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm in the habit of abbreviating. For example, when something runs low in the kitchen and I make a note of it on the chalkboard, I usually abbreviate it. I know my own codes, so it's easy. WWB is whole wheat bread, MLK is milk, WW4C is white wine for ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2008/05/10/hbo/ Going forward, we achieve significance by leveraging translational services to deliver bleeding edge value-add from c-level points of interest to highly targeted c-level receptors. This arises directional queries as to the procedural efficacy and ROI going forward. Resultant to this is a directional correction phase which is expected to be ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2008/05/02/my-paradox/ Today is "Earth Day." In honor of that, I am posting the following exposé on biofuels. I originally wrote this last year, before the looming global food shortages threw the whole biofuels question into the spotlight. I didn't post it, however, as I wanted to do more research. But perhaps ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2008/04/22/biofuels-solve-the-wrong-problem-and-create-others/ The New York Times has a nice article about Rome at night in yesterday's Travel section. The Web version includes a slide show and a multimedia walking guide. It brings me back. Rome is one of my three favorite cities in the world (I haven't yet decided what the other two ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2008/04/21/rome-at-night/ A while ago, the Ririan Project posed an article on 22 tips for high self esteem. It's a pretty good read and is generally free of feel-good hokum. Most of it is stuff that seems to come naturally to those lucky people who have "natural" high self esteem, but the ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2008/04/16/on-self-esteem/ When I'm making my various trips through the Web it drives me crazy that there are no standards for how to represent the "previous" and "next" page (or message) links on Web sites. For example, in Yahoo Mail (classic view), when you get to the bottom of a page of ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2008/04/14/previous-next-standardize-please/ I've been using Twitter lately, which is odd when you consider I had started using it last year and then gave up on it, calling it a colossal waste of time without even the benefit of being fun or useful. But one day two weeks ago I signed in and ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2008/04/07/twitter-and-me/