bitful

1. I knew you made fish batter with beer. I did not know that you can replace it with sparkling water, must not mix too vigorously and should add a bit of fizzy water or beer at the very end, because it's the bubbles that make the batter go crisp and puff up when it cooks.
2. You can search Google using dashes instead of inverted commas and you will get more or less the same results. A string in inverted commas (e.g. "search this phrase") returns exactly the same sequence of characters and spaces. Separating words with dashes (e.g. search-this-phrase) also includes variations of punctuation within the string (e.g. search "This phrase).
3. Two-way syncing between your iPod and iTunes does not work on manual sync mode. If you want your play and skip count, and rating info to sync from your iPod into into your iTunes library, you need to set it in automatic syncing mode.
4. Some default shortcuts in Windows Vista (Local Settings, My Documents, Recent, SendTo, Start Menu, My Music, My Pictures and others) cannot be accessed because they are not true folders but junctions that point legacy applications to their new locations in Vista. You can hide protected operating system files so they don't clutter your interface.
5. Retro bar held its Eurovision semifinal this week. Found out when a mate who was there sent me a text. Funny how this year I am completely not interested in it. Might be because lately my music taste has changed, might be because the few songs I've heard suck big time. If you do give a toss, Denmark won the Retro bar ESC semi, with a drag queen named DQ singing a song entitled, er, Drama Queen. Ooh, so daring, so controversial! Not. And yes, I'd heard the song, and it sucks. Big time.
6. In the original Battlestar Galactica series, Lieutenant Starbuck was a male character, played by Dirk Benedict of UK Celebrity Big Brother 2007 (and A-Team) fame. The reimagined female Starbuck also happens to be my favourite BSG character. So now you know that I have only started watching BSG with season three. Must catch up soon.
7. WordPress spam comment filtering plugin Akismet automatically deletes spam comments after 15 days. One of my weekly tasks is to check spam comments for false positives (only ever found one or two because the comments had too many embedded links) and delete them all. I guess that a) I'll just do the former now, and b) I should perhaps stop guessing how stuff works andRTFM instead.

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