Fun with bacon

Like everyone (1) I love bacon, mostly I have it fried for breakfast, sometimes with maple syrup ’cause that whole sweet/salty thing is just fab.

So you can imagine how delighted I was to discover a recipe for candied bacon - yup, that’s bacon with a hard toffee coating…

I know what I’ll be doing this weekend.

(1) everyone except those who don’t like bacon obviously.

Science – it works bitches!

Made me laugh

And here’s the link in case the movie doesn’t load

Taming the leopards

I have a very nice new Macbook which I use at work – through a combination of vmware and entourage. I’ve used it every day for about a year and never had any problems with it. In fact most of my work colleagues find my smugness about the stability and power of my machine, compared to their cruddy pcs somewhat irritating.

Well, they sort of got their revenge. I upgraded to Snow Leopard and I got complacent, I didn’t do all the general housekeeping things that are good practice when upgrading MacOSx. with the inevitable result. The once beautifully stable machine crashed roughly every 2-3 hours. (often enough to be irritating, but not so often it was unworkable).

I tried a couple of repair type things to see if I could fix it without having to rebuild – but to no avail.

So, yesterday I rebuilt the machine.

I’m back to being super smug about how much better the Mac is – I don’t know anyone who has rebuilt a PC and within a matter of hours has a fully functioning machine with all the applications you use regularly installed and working, networking connected, and all the data back where it belong. It was a seriously easy and stress free process. (thank you Time Machine)

On the whole, I’d rather have not had to do the rebuild – but it wasn’t as bad as I’d feared, and it seems to have done the trick.