I came across two new online book sellers, or at least new to me. The Book Depository ships the items from their warehouse in Gloucester, United Kingdom within 48 hours free worldwide. Their prices are comparable to Amazon and with…
Steam is a great service: log in on any PC and play the games you’ve paid for. The only downside is the download; modern games are between one and five gigabytes, which makes for a long download. Or after you…
I was making chicken roulades stuffed with smoked pork loin and Gouda this week and was concerned with them keeping their shape. I pounded out the chicken breasts between pieces of plastic wrap until they were quite thin, then put…
I needed some lemon juice for a recipe but I only had an old lemon in the fruit bowl that had become very stiff. I remembered reading something about heating an old lemon to juice it so I put the…
A friend recently had some PC issues so I volunteered to reload their PC. They had Windows XP Home and used the PC for web surfing and email so I wiped the drive and installed XP Home with Service Pack…
I’ve been buying whole pork loins lately: they come with a lovely pork loin for about two thirds and sirloin for the last third. The loin is very nice but the sirloin on these pieces is jagged and just isn’t…
I’m a lifelong Howard Chaykin fan. In the 80’s I discovered American Flagg! and never looked back. He has a unique storytelling style that appeals to the teenager in all of us. His art has shifted over time: I’m not…
Picked up A Prisoner Of Birth at a bargain book warehouse; I knew Jeffrey Archer‘s work and needed some new reading material. Two days later I had finished the best book I have read this year. Here’s the publisher’s blurb:…
Sometime in 2006 I started using Gmail. I had been an ardent Outlook user until that point for two reasons: I knew the product and all the mail was kept in one PST file that could be easily moved around…