Double Smoked Pork Loin
I had enjoyed double smoked bacon when I worked at a German butcher shop during high school but haven’t seen it much since. It was my monthly or quarterly bacon prep and I was smoking a pork belly and a…
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Sleeper Season One by Brubaker and Phillips
Sleeper Season One was recently released in trade paperback, collecting the original 2002 twelve issue series from Wildstorm. It had been collected into two volumes in 2004 but this is the first time we have the first story line in…
The Book Of Eli
I had been looking forward to this film based on the previews: it appeared to be a solid western-ish action story focusing on a hardened traveler on a mission. It definitely delivered. The Book Of Eli is the story of…
ClearType in Windows XP
I was installing an LCD monitor on a Windows XP PC and the user thought the native resolution of 1650×1080 was too small so I ended up lowering it to 1280×800. The text was jagged and horrible: very hard on…
Torpedo Volume 1 by Abuli and Bernet
Had seen The Complete Torpedo Volume 1 solicited in Diamond Previews but didn’t know much about the book. A little internet searching and I found it was a long running Spanish story of a New York hitman in the 1930s:…
Mozy Online Backup
If you don’t back up your files at some point you will lose them. We rely on mechanical storage to keep our information and inevitably it will fail. People used to say it didn’t matter since it was only a…
Review Criteria
With my new found interest in reviewing books and graphic novels it makes sense to lay out what I'm looking for before I tackle a review.
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As a huge fan of Saveur magazine I was thrilled to see they ran a piece on making your own bacon at home a few years ago. Of course I have my own recipe I enjoy so I forgot about…
SkyDrive Explorer
Microsoft is giving users 25 GB of online storage space for free, and has been for some time. It’s called SkyDrive and is part of the Microsoft Live group of online resources. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to get the exposure…