The Worst Thing in the World ...worst practices...

I'm not an originalist

Also Bittman. We're adding more yeast, more salt, nuts, olive oil to the basic recipe, and using a loaf pan.

I had some semolina in the pantry that needed to be used up. This is in the syrup soaked pound cake genre.

Adapted from http://greekfood.about.com/od/cakes/r/Revani.htm

http://www.theawl.com/2011/01/the-most-emailed-new-york-times-article-ev...

The Oakland Symphony Chorus (who I sing with) is performing Brahms's German Requiem with the Oakland East Bay Symphony later this month. It's pretty epic music.

CMS are often categorized by the use-cases they cover, usually grouped by "complexity". So we see a lot of CMS taxonomies that bucket products into "Enterprise/Small Business" or "Simple/Medium/Complex".

Here's a typical taxonomy takes both complexity and the Product vs Platform axis into account.

Getting back into Drupal work after a long hiatus, I had an epiphany about how developers choose CMS (or maybe more generally, how makers choose tools).

Google Reader ca(t)ches your mistakes :(

Inspirated

I was parking at a metered spot today, and didn't have enough money to pay for the time I needed. But I figured it was probably worth paying for part of the time, to cut the chances of getting a ticket.

It would be great to create a parking calculator that would tell you when it was a good bet to pay the meter and when it was a good bet to risk a ticket.

You'd need to know

• How long you will be parked
• Hourly rate for the meter
• Amount of the fine if you get a ticket
• Probability of getting a ticket per hour parked

This is an average recipe/ratio from chef Google. If you do a really good job of squeezing water from the potatoes, this will seem *really* dry. Let it rest for 15 minutes or so once the batter is all mixed. Once salted, the potatoes will give up some extra starchy liquid that will bring it all together.

The classic