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Top Five Teas of 2008
I thought I would celebrate the end of year by naming my five favorite teas of 2008. Note that I mean teas that I have tasted in the past year, not necessarily the 2008 harvest. In the spirit of diversity, … Continue reading
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Two Dickens Christmas Tales
With the resounding success of A Christmas Carol, Dickens apparently thought he had a good thing going and started writing annual Christmas stories. There are five stories total, written from 1843 (A Christmas Carol) to 1848 (The Haunted Man). He … Continue reading
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Firefox Favorites
It’s been a while since I did a tech post, so I thought I’d write about a few of the fun tech toys I’ve been playing with lately. Then I realized that most of these are Firefox add-ons, so I’ll … Continue reading
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A Christmas Carol
I know that Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to cheer the hearts of mankind and to infuse us all with the spirit of the season. (Well, he also wrote it to try to jump start his flagging career—more on that … Continue reading
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A Few Oolongs
For the most part, I really like oolong tea, but I don’t drink a lot of it. Lately I’ve been very focused on pu-erh, but I have made some recent interesting excursions into “the other gong-fu tea.” So here are … Continue reading
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