French Press me

TheStar.com | Business | Chain hopes premium cup will perk up sagging sales

Starbucks is testing a 360-millilitre cup of “fresh-pressed” coffee at $2.50 (U.S.) each. The price is $2.25 in a Boston trial. Starbucks charges $1.55 for a regular brew in those stores.
Much like a French kiss, a French pressed cup of coffee is […]

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Hey everybody!
I know I haven’t been posting much lately (i.e., the last 6+ months). Life has been a little hectic, juggling 4 jobs to pay the bills. Adsense and my widget donations don’t get me vary far… 7 cents a day and 2 donations for a grand total of $7 minus PayPal fees […]

My new home

FYI, I’ve moved. If you didn’t get my contact info changed email, I’m tired and missed adding you or I don’t have your email address. Email me for details.
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I seem to have migrated the WordPress data over correctly, but something with SpamKarma is broken so I am disabling comments until I have the time to fix it. –mhp

Distilling Lester McLean Trio

I spent the afternoon yesterday walking around the Distillery District looking at the Pure Spirit Lofts and the newly opened showroom for the http://www.clearspiritliving.com/Clear Spirit Lofts, the only 2 residential buildings in the pedestrian only area in the District. The units are nice and well appointed, but the premium for the location is pretty […]

An other long goodbye

It’s been exactly two years less a month, the second half of a beautiful pair has passed. She knew it was coming long before any of us, before the doctors confirmed it. She may have played coy at times, but she always knew exactly what was going on - even better than most […]

I was attacked — by a squirrel

So I’m sitting in front of JHE, the Engineering Building at McMaster, listening to my iPod and reading through the my Ph.D. registration package. I feel something brush my left foot… I look down and there is this cute little black squirrel on my foot nibbling at the bottom of my jeans.
I lift […]

2007 IBM Challenge winners

McMaster Daily News - IBM puts software engineering students to the test
Congrats to Ethel, and the rest of the Mr. Robotto team, for winning the IBM Software Engineering Design Project Competition. I look forward to seeing your names added to the 1st Place Winners plaque in the departmental office.

World Water Day & BRTC

Wars have been faught over gold and coal, they are currently being faught over oil, soon it will be over water. In North America and Europe we are sheltered from the fact that clean water is becoming an ever scarce resource. When that fact is realised by the masses the […]

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