Later in the summer I'll be offering some bread-making courses, and as part of that I've been excavating part of my personal baking history. Today, that was the story of how I came by one of my sourdough starters, the 100-year old Tuscan pasta madre. I snapped this portrait this morning.

Active sourdough starter

A...

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Yikes! A big part of me wants to just ignore March until the end of April. But the rest of me knows that if I do that, chances are the whole task will be too overwhelming and I will just give up. So, better later than never.

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A month on, and my little program to suck up and display the podcasts I have listen ed to is working well, but not perfectly. It still sometimes duplicates an entry it has already created, and I have been having a difficult time trying to work out why.

One simple reason for the difficulty is tha...

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Action!

Originally published 05-04-2008

racing car with number 26
At a meeting yesterday morning we discussed a shared workspace. The Chair preferred email, "because people prefer action items, and an email in your inbox you can take action on. Going to a shared workspace you can ignore."

Well yes, if it weren't that...

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Finally, I have succeeded in importing all the podcasts I have listened to with the Overcast app, at least as far back as May 2018.

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