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Month: October 2013

A presentation on blogging I gave at work

Posted on October 31, 2013September 29, 2017 By admin

As part of a tech talk series at work, I gave a presentation on blogging. Figured I’d just throw it up here for safekeeping.

An introduction to blogging

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Disclaimer!

Posted on October 30, 2013November 4, 2013 By admin

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Meet Kip, the Kia!

Posted on October 29, 2013October 29, 2013 By admin

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We bought a car, zoop! zoop! It’s a Kia Rio 1.4 diesel. It’s a 2012, with only 11280 km on the clock. We got a decent deal. It’s still under the manufacturer warranty for 6 years, has power everything, sun roof, heated seats and a full set of winter tires.

Now Katy just needs to get used to driving on the wrong side of the road, in the wrong side of the car :)

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Trapped in meeting hell!!!

Posted on October 28, 2013 By admin


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Feeling ruff

Posted on October 26, 2013 By admin

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The new Mr. Men

Posted on October 22, 2013 By admin

Updated for life in modern Britain

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World leaders by country

Posted on October 21, 2013 By admin
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Le Petit Manoir

Posted on October 21, 2013October 21, 2013 By admin

While Katy’s parents are in town, we have babysitting! We made full use of it last Friday night to go have a late anniversary dinner at Le Petit Manoir. It’s a one-star Michelin restaurant that’s 5 minutes from our door. This might prove dangerous!

We got there early and were whisked to our table. We both decided on the Hunter’s menu, where each serving would be paired with a glass of wine selected by the chef.

Our meal started with a mise en bouche of sweet potato mousse with a smoked lard foam and small slices of roasted veal. Katy then had a venison Wellington-y sort of dish, with sauteed cabbage, pumpkin salad and juniper berries. For me, to cater for my allergies, the wellington was replaced with sauteed venison loin, with the same sides. Katy had a pheasant tartelette with mustard endives while I had wild duck foie gras. That was followed with a supreme of roast pigeon, with salsifi and a wild mushroom emulsion (THAT WAS TO DIE FOR!!!). The main course (!) was seared deer cubes with braised red cabbage and spaëtzle. We then had a cheese board, with some cracking cheeses (Katy discovered well-aged Gruyere and I discovered Livarot, as well as a blue cheese from St-Galle) paired with a beautiful Bordeaux. The meal was rounded off with coffee, sorbets and a platter of petits fours that Katy had to sacrifice herself and take on by herself. In the end, we were royally stuffed! It wasn’t cheap, but it was very, very, very good!

One of the more memorable moments of the evening was when another party came in with a huge dog. Nobody even batted an eye – which is fairly commonplace in Switzerland – and the dog was very well behaved and spent most of the meal under their table. The funny moment was when they asked for a bowl of water for the pooch, it was served in a fine bone china bowl on a plate :) At one point, the dog was wearing the tablecloth on its head like a nun’s headpiece. It was very cute.

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So, if you’re in Morges and have the chance to go, I strongly recommend it.

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*snerk*

Posted on October 21, 2013 By admin

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Post-Doctor Who?

Posted on October 21, 2013 By admin

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In the second scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood, approached Wen and spake thusly: "Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?" Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: "A fish!" And Clodpool went away, satisfied.
--(Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time)

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