I have an announcement to make…
After many years of research, I have finally cracked the secret to the ultimate hot chocolate.
I took the boys into the city today for “Wicked Sunday” - the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival’s celebration of coffee. And ’twas there, children, that I stumbled upon the magic ingredient - Chocolateria™ San Churro. The secret, I have discovered, to the perfect, hot, thick, to-die-for spanish hot chocolate for “churos” is to use the very expensive powder from Chocolateria™ San Churro, with milk, and be prepared to stir it on a low heat in a saucepan for about 15 minutes. But, oh! Children! You will not regret this discipline, I assure you. TO DIE FOR.
In other Sunday night news… I just discovered by accident that if I click the scroll wheel on my mouse, Vista shows all of the open windows evenly arrayed across my monitor. h00t!
I still can’t figure out how to get my Google Desktop searches to open in Firefox instead of IE. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling GD today but didn’t help. Goddamn IE!
In other Google frustrations, as my Gmail account is now 96% full, I tried to upgrade to Google Premium tonight, only to find that in order to do that I need to point my domain name MX record over to Google. Obviously cannot do that sir, as I am not the only citizen of TPN to be using it. So I’m scratching my head trying to figure out how I give the nice kids at Google my $50 for one of those 10Gb email accounts. If anyone knows the answer to my dilemma, please pass it on.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:43 am
Hi there,
I’m writing a book about doing things literally (taking lots of phrases and sayings literally) - from literally taking a bull by the horns, to painting the town red literally, to getting as drunk as a lord, to going to Hell (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=hell,+norway&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1&iwloc=addr) and back, etc, etc.
The reason I’m writing to you is simple - I’d like to live the life of Reilly, literally. I don’t know anyone called Reilly - so I’ve just had a forage on Google for Reilly’s in London and found you. I’m not sure exactly how you live the life of Reilly. I had been thinking about just trudging around with a Reilly for a day, but I think in order to literally live the life of Reilly, I would have to take a Reilly’s place in some way. Any thoughts? It would have to be something a little remarkable, as it’s supposed to make it into a book.
If it does fill you with dread, and sound all too weird - not a problem, I’m sure I can have a rummage for another Reilly! And apologies for scaring/confusing you. But if you’re open to letting me live the life of Reilly, it should be quite fun.
best,
Paul Parry
March 26th, 2007 at 8:04 am
I love hot chocolate!
Unfortunately I can’t drink them because they give me the mother of all stomach aches. I occasionally have one anyway but somehow they never seem to be worth it later.
March 26th, 2007 at 8:25 am
What about using the cameronreilly.com address?
Molly
March 26th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Hmmm… did you have to change anything to get that Vista mouse click thing to work? It just activates drag-scroll for me.
Drag-scroll is probably the most useless invention in the history of windows.
March 26th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Ben - no mate, just works.
Molly - cuz I’ve already been publishing my address as the TPN domain for the last 2 years.
Mim - That’s weird. Can you eat chocolate without the side effects?
March 26th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
yeah chocolate is fine. I’m lactose intolerant. Not very badly intolerant just enough that a hot chocolate makes me feel ill. Lattes and cappuccinos seem to be alright its just that extra milk that does it.
Fortunately processing removes a lot of lactose so I can eat cheese to my heart’s content.
March 26th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Clicking the scroll wheel in XP does the same for me. I think its something to do with the latest intellipoint drivers.
With the GMail thing why not create a subdomain and point the MX records for that to Google. Shouldn’t stuff anything else up.
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Antony
March 26th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
I like Antony’s idea.