So it looks as though I may have set up w.blogger and FeedDemon to work together. The theory being that I can send interesting links from FeedDemon to the blogging client, which will then send them to my blog using the awesome new Textpattern XML-RPC that was released the other day.
Why would I do this? Is it really that painful to log into the back end of my site and type posts there? No, that is really quite painless, but this should save me about 10 seconds per post, thus improving my productivity. Forget about the hour I have set configuring this thing :P
The guys at Ministry Grounds , Australian Coffee blog, have set about growing coffee in their backyard
I fully anticipate the plants to thrive and produce some fruit in 2-3 years. It will interesting to watch, and there’s a certain satisfaction to seeing the very beginning of the coffee journey in the plants, through to roasting, to the finished product in the cup.
Making your own pizza dough is a simple enough task, but it really impresses everyone else because there is a commonly held belief that it is difficult to do.
Rediculously Thorough Guide to Making Pizza
Bookmark this link.
It’s funny the topics that people choose to become overzealous about.
Whether it is for financial gain, fame, or just because they really, really believe it, there are all manner of wackos on this wide brown internet all talking nonsense. Health is one topic that is talked about all over.
As far as I can gather, a certain Dr. Linus Pauling was a great advocate for the ingestion of large doses of vitamin C. According to this site, the publication of his second book in 1970, called Vitamin C and the Common Cold may have caused an increase in the consumption of vitamin c supplaments by 300%. The author claims that this increase inversly effected the mortality rate due to coronary heart failure.
Vitamin c is also responsible for reducing the incidence of glaucoma and cateracts. It works in conjunction with things called bioflavonoids which are present in all foods containing vitamin c. One less health supplement to buy :)
Wikipedia give us more information:
As a class of compounds, flavonoids have been referred to as “nature’s biological response modifiers” because of their ability to modify the body’s reaction to other compounds such as allergens, viruses, and carcinogenic properties. In addition, flavonoids act as powerful antioxidants by providing remarkable protection against oxidative and free radical damage.
Apparently one of the richest sources for bioflavonoids is the stringy white stuff inside citrus fruit. Now I am a manderine lover, but I have always thought that the white stuff was to be taken off as much as possible. I think I may even have been told (no doubt by some peabrained schoolfriend) that you would get cancer from eating it.
Not that I ever believed such tripe.
I did some reading today in an attempt to discover how taking vitamin C helps clear up dark circles under eyes.
It seems to me (once again, I must stress that I am no chemist) that the vitamin C helps in the body’s production of collagen. This collagen is used by the body to maintain skin elasticity.
I have assessed my diet and I am pretty sure that I am not vitamin C deficient, but I have decided to start taking mega-doses of vitamin C for a while to see what happens.
There is a Vitamin C Foundation which look to extol the wonders of ingesting vitamin C (it will even help in the battle against avian flu – they say:
Various U.S. and U.N. agencies and the Council on Foreign Relations are spreading the word that the Avian Influenza, if it breaks out this fall or winter, could be as severe as the worldwide Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918, and they are predicting hundreds of millions of deaths worldwide. This influenza, currently isolated in China, is a hemorrhagic illness. It kills half of its victims by rapidly depleting ascorbate (vitamin C) stores in the body, inducing scurvy and collapse of the arterial blood supply, causing internal hemorrhaging of the lungs and sinus cavities
I’m not sure about the truth of this claim as I am not a disease expert, but I guess I can rest easier now that imported pigeons have tested positive for avian flu in Australia