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Below is the menu of a recent dinner party that we had on 2nd January.  I thought it would be nice to record the event as I'll never remember the wines or the order that we had them.
 
Mousse de canard with sauternes jelly served on crostini
Duc de Sauternes - 2003
 

British Airways is in its final steps of becoming a budget airline at national carrier prices.  
British Airways sets seat charges

I am in the process of moving my blog/site over to Fife Communities Apollo platform. I expect it to look worse than normal during the transition.
With time I hope to add more features and feeds. This may help me update and add articles and other ramblings more often.
This could spell the end of orablog.

I have recently written a blog post over at Fife Community on cricket meets Twitter. Cross posting here for completeness.

After reading and seeing all the hype by Mr King 'The King Of Shaves', I bought in to the idea that there is a cheaper, better alternative to the big two names in shaving. How wrong was I?

It appears I was very, very wrong.

The Azor (from now on I'll drop the uppercase 'A' due to my disappointment) is the razor developed by The king Of Shaves dubbed as 'The Future Of Shaving'.

After purchasing an azor at the weekend and using it once I have the following to say.

Another one of those "why is this thing not working in Debian!" problem.

The answer is:

apt-get install ant-optional

Why or why is ant not fully installed with the ant package?

Urgh!

This is a brief post on how to get Perl's DBD::mysql working with MAMP 1.7 on Mac OS X Leopard. The instructions for now, are quite concise.

I have found that using CPAN does not seem to work to install DBD::mysql when you only have MAMP installed. The CPAN commands:

perl -MCPAN -eshell
install DBD::mysql

This I think is due to MAMP not having the correct MySQL files or libraries installed. Below are the steps required to get DBD::mysql working.

A few months have passed since the passing of old John Young and not much has changed.

Young's is now brewed by Wells in Bedford.

No longer in Wandsworth. No longer local. No longer drunk by me.

Well, well, Wells.

John Young, the oldest and longest-serving chairman in the brewing industry, died on Sunday night aged 85, after a long battle against cancer. He had headed the family's brewery in Wandsworth, southwest London, for 44 years.

I found this on /.

• APL ~= Car built out of Legos. Fully operational. No one knows how it works. Or why.
• ASM ~= Suzuki Hayabusa: Ready, aim, goodbye
• C ~= Ferrari - drive it wrong and you'll be wrapped round a tree before you know it
• C++ ~= Pickup truck w/extended cab, dually axles, 4wd
• COBOL ~= Loaner. No one would buy one, after all