Diary: January 2009
Today will go down in history as the day of the birth of the greatest chocolate to ever grace the earth.
This morning I at last received my Christmas present from Leela - a trip to learn about chocolates from Miette in Stow-on-the-Wold, who are quite possibly the finest chocolatiers in all the land - nay, in all the world. And as you may be able to tell from the superlatives, I rather enjoyed the occasion.
My gift was a chocolate experience - two hours in the company of the proprietor and master chocolatier, who introduced me and Leela to many samples from ...
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My chocolates arrived, and they taste good.
Words cannot express my joy, so have some photos instead.
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I've just replaced my expensive old mouse after a pathetically short life, and went for the Logitech MX620. I've now discovered that the middle mouse button malfunctions in pretty much all of them, including mine, but that's another story.
Experiences with older Linux distros proved rarely easy to configure hardware, so I plugged in my new mouse with trepidation - but it all worked perfectly, first time. Even the search button - I'm impressed with intrepid.
However, I find I very rarely use back/forward in my browser due to tab usage, so prefer to map the back ...
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