June 10, 2003
Heineken Temperature
Through
extensive trial and error, I've discovered that the optimal
temperature for Heineken is not achieved in the refrigerator. The
taste seems to improve quit a bit after it's had a chance to get
roughly half way to room temperature. I don't have a thermometer
handy, but I'm going to guess that it's roughly 48-52 degrees
Fahrenheit. The fridge gets it close to 38 degrees or so (last time I
checked) and it's about 65 in my apartment.
It's really too bad that I can't find JW Dundee's Honey Brown in the Bay Area. And it seems that Killian's Irish Red is hard to come by too. Those were my college favorites.
If you feel like bashing my choice of beer, don't waste your time. I really don't care what you think. Now, if you'd like to suggest something I ought to try, I'm all ears.
RSS Behind the Firewall
I knew this day would come, but I've been trying to avoid it. For roughly a year now, I've been happily reading various news source by using RSS aggregators of various form and function. Some were desktop apps and others were server-side. Some for Windows, some for Linux, and some for OS X.
In recent months, there's been growing talk about RSS at work. And I don't mean things like the Finance, Ask, or Buzz RSS stuff. There's been talk of using it internally. We have a growing number of internal weblogs (or people looking to experiment with them) and some in-house tools that now generate RSS.
This is great.
But it's going to suck too.
The honeymoon is over. Now I need to have two aggregators: one at home and one at work.
I'm used to doing this for e-mail, but that doesn't mean I like it. I suppose I could start taking my laptop to work every day, but then I'd have to take my laptop to work everyday.
I've been thinking about this for a while and haven't come up with any good solution. I suppose that someone could work on synchronizing aggregators. Then I could sync up my home and work aggregators somehow. Maybe that'll happen?
I wonder if is going to become a more common problem as RSS picks up steam in various companies.