Pasta - Cheese, Garlic & Herb
Marks was closed so I headed for the 7-11 Woolworth General Store. The place is perfect for crisis managed lives though it uses extra calories to cross Mare Street, dodging the open top BMWs that have bigger sound systems than I got at home. This Pasta was worth the risk of ear damage from subwoofers - though the rules for having a two-week-hence sell-by-date and labelling it fresh need tweaking. Nevertheless, with 4 minutes cooking time it all felt worth it. I used the four minutes to run a backup though I could have knocked out a couple of emails - I didn't see the point in argueing with myself over this. I was decisive and just went for it just like the doctor told me.
The flavour? Well as ever with pasta - or indeed any food you boil - the flavour is unbelievably subtle only a junk gourmet could spot it. Let's see how we did:
Journey to shop 10 minutes round trip; Cooking 10 minutes; Eating 5 minutes, but I wasn't woofing at my best. Twenty five minutes = 5 websites not seen. I promise myself to do better.
Pasta - Cheese, Garlic & Herb
Docking stations and Sticky fixers
A sign of good portable technology is whether it has a neat cradle where it can charge its batteries and synchronise with the world. The digital cameras (Fuji, Kodak) that do this do away with so much phaff and thinking. Laptops too can be dropped into dock from where they not only charge but share Internet, printers and files. Toshiba have pedigree with this and the resulting convenience is a joy. After a long wait, a Jornada Docking unit arrived to offer pretty good convenience though it needs comparing with Handspring, Palm and Ipaq docking units where the mass of the cradle unsures a measure of clumsiness during docking and undocking. Even the charging stand that you can buy for a mobile phone makes a difference. (If a landline cordless phone came with a separate charging unit instead of a dock we'd soon notice something's amiss). The cure is provided by the pieces of double-sided sticky foam to attach these items to our kitchen worktop where they are conveniently to hand during meals and snacks. The result is pure phone shui.
The Docking unit came from Expansys, another firm raising expectation with 'Out of stock - expected in 4 days' but these actually means weeks. In other respects Expansys are fantastic - fast phone response and fast next day delivery.
Marks was closed so I headed for the 7-11 Woolworth General Store. The place is perfect for crisis managed lives though it uses extra calories to cross Mare Street, dodging the open top BMWs that have bigger sound systems than I got at home. This Pasta was worth the risk of ear damage from subwoofers - though the rules for having a two-week-hence sell-by-date and labelling it fresh need tweaking. Nevertheless, with 4 minutes cooking time it all felt worth it. I used the four minutes to run a backup though I could have knocked out a couple of emails - I didn't see the point in argueing with myself over this. I was decisive and just went for it just like the doctor told me.
The flavour? Well as ever with pasta - or indeed any food you boil - the flavour is unbelievably subtle only a junk gourmet could spot it. Let's see how we did:
Journey to shop 10 minutes round trip; Cooking 10 minutes; Eating 5 minutes, but I wasn't woofing at my best. Twenty five minutes = 5 websites not seen. I promise myself to do better.
Pasta - Cheese, Garlic & Herb
Docking stations and Sticky fixers
A sign of good portable technology is whether it has a neat cradle where it can charge its batteries and synchronise with the world. The digital cameras (Fuji, Kodak) that do this do away with so much phaff and thinking. Laptops too can be dropped into dock from where they not only charge but share Internet, printers and files. Toshiba have pedigree with this and the resulting convenience is a joy. After a long wait, a Jornada Docking unit arrived to offer pretty good convenience though it needs comparing with Handspring, Palm and Ipaq docking units where the mass of the cradle unsures a measure of clumsiness during docking and undocking. Even the charging stand that you can buy for a mobile phone makes a difference. (If a landline cordless phone came with a separate charging unit instead of a dock we'd soon notice something's amiss). The cure is provided by the pieces of double-sided sticky foam to attach these items to our kitchen worktop where they are conveniently to hand during meals and snacks. The result is pure phone shui.
The Docking unit came from Expansys, another firm raising expectation with 'Out of stock - expected in 4 days' but these actually means weeks. In other respects Expansys are fantastic - fast phone response and fast next day delivery.
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