Crepe Originally uploaded by David Ascher.

A treat I’ve recently uncovered at the corner store (Nadi’s, who, IIRC, hails from Lebanon) are maamoul, little cakes filled with dates. The store has stocked different brands, all from Saudi Arabia, with the latest definitely being the best: it has a surprisingly fresh pastry (especially if one acknowledges that...

Install feeddemon 1.5 trial (still trying to figure out an alternative to bloglines) Enable the bloglines synchronization feature Decide the keyboard navigation still feels awkward, and still don’t like having to read blogs in the websites (not as fast as bloglines’ “everyone looks the same” model). Go back to bloglines,...

I’m at level 5 of the Python Challenge. 12 more to go, phew.