Month: April 2010

About bloomin' time. I like the way that Darling and Osborne just stand back and let Cable dig himself deeper and deeper and deeper and…

Best act on last week's Jools, IMHO. Something like a cross between TV On The Radio and Depeche Mode.

Seriously comprehensive holiday home search engine. Mind you, what is it about Germas and their holiday homes – they all seem to be uniformly rubbish.

I like the business card style USB drives that these guys do. Local company too.

Self catering accommodation in the Luik-Maastricht-Vaals-Aken area, mainly character properties.

Converted farmhouse self-catering accommodation in Zuid Limburg, not too far from Maastricht. Would mean getting in the car to get to a restaurant or anything, which might be a pain in the bum.

This looks like a different place to visit – H loves things that are Arabic in style, so we might give this a look. via DG.

This rather strengthens the CPVO's hand or at least should give it greater confidence. I know both the plaintiff and his lawyer quite well, but must admit I always thought that they were on sticky ground.

Hmm. Well, my comments on this article say it all.

Oh, bleedin' 'eck. The law really needs to catch up with reality. via LMG.

Hmm. Might be useful for the E51. Currently my data backs up automatically to my laptop, which then gets backed up weekly to an external hard drive.

Read this all the way to the end, including the last sentence. Then draw your own conclusions.

Make sure you will be able to vote on May 6th.

Good source of EU news, particularly issues related to the Union itself.

The Adam looks like the leading contender for pick of the bunch from the first flush of tablet computers, not least because of that screen. Of course, give it another six months…

I'm beginning to look out for iPad alternatives. I'm an Applephobe, so I'm looking at devices from other suppliers with 12+ hour battery life, ease of use, good screen size and resolution (I plan to mainly use it as a product catalogue to show to customers at exhibitions) as well as robust construction (it could get thumped about a bit). I'm not yet sure which OS will be best, so I'm open to Android, Linux or Windows.

I like this version as it doesn't call for extra bacon (or, heaven help us, pancetta) and so strikes me as being closer to the real deal of traditional cookery.

This is remarkably similar (aside from the pancetta) to the recipe given by Jane Grigson in her classic English Food. I'm more inclined to follow the latter.