whitlam100

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Do We Have Any Winnie The Pooh Fans Here?

Darkwing @Darkwing (21583) 12 Feb 07

A. A. Milne, who wrote Winnie the Pooh, set his stories in woodland, in a place called Hartfield, which is in East Sussex. I live in West Sussex and Hartfield is not too far away, so my grandchildren often ask to go over to Pooh...

pooh bear

pooh tigger

winnie the pooh and pooh country

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whitlam100 Pooh is a sore topic in my household as my wife absolutely hates the disney incarnation but adores the original sketches from the books she read as a child. Personally, I find the sight of tigger jumping around outweighs any sentimental connection with the...

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Should the Daily Show be on UK TV?

whitlam100 @whitlam100 (13) 12 Feb 07

I watch the daily show in the UK. It's on daily, obviously, a day behind the US. Very funny. The only concern I have is that we don't get the opposite view, the only exposure we get to Fox news etc... is Jon pointing fun. We,...

american opinion

daily show

us uk

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Five skinny models barred from Madrid catwalk. Back to nature?

polachicago @polachicago (18716) • United States 11 Feb 07

MADRID (Reuters) - Five models were declared too thin for the catwalk at this week's international designer show in Madrid, a doctor in charge of vetting them said on Sunday. "I don't like the extremely thin look and I think...

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whitlam100 Technically the models were found to be too unwell, not too thin. The thinness was the CAUSE of the lack of health though. This is the correct approach as to ban simply on grounds of appearance would be a step too far. If I were seriously underweight at...

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Storing your digital photos.

Shelite @Shelite (212) • Canada 11 Feb 07

I've heard that you shouldn't store your digital photos on memory cards for long periods of time as over a period you could come across a 'card error'. And then all your precious photos would be gone and you wouldn't be able to...

digital photos

scrapbooking

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whitlam100 I use Flickr (http://www.flickr.com) to store a high resolution JPEG of all my digital photos. Depending on how many you have you may need to 'go pro' with a paid account, but this is pretty cheap at just $25 (I think), which doesn't buy an awful lot of backup...

12 Feb 07

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best bread

adelala @adelala (35) • Indonesia 28 Jan 07

bread from what country do you like most? and give the reason why you like it

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whitlam100 You mean Naan bread! Naan bread is an amazingly hard thing to pull off if you try to bake it yourself. The dough is very soft, having yoghurt and ghee in it (ghee is clarified butter). Tastes amazing though. In Scotland you get a 'Mince Naan' which has...

12 Feb 07

best bread

adelala @adelala (35) • Indonesia 28 Jan 07

bread from what country do you like most? and give the reason why you like it

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whitlam100 French bread is the best in the world, although not all of it is great. The main reason for this s the interference of the state in the natural economic ecosystem of the country. For example every village over a certain size has, by law, to have an artisan...

12 Feb 07

GMAIL Vs YAHOO

harshitk @harshitk (40) • India 11 Feb 07

Which email service provider do u think is better--GMAIL or YAHOO or any other .

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whitlam100 I prefer Gmail. I've used it for a loooong time, since roughly a month after they started the closed invites. I use it almost exclusively for my personal email, on my PC and my phone. I've recently had to use Yahoo mail for the first time as my Flickr...

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Boin Boing on the road

whitlam100 @whitlam100 (13) 11 Feb 07

Anyone else on here like to read boinboing on the move on a cell/mobile with a web browser? I've just changed phones from a Windows Mobile XDA to a Nokia. In all other respects the Nokia is great, but the browser runs out of...

boingboing

cellphone

web access

Favorite Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe?

YuhMin @YuhMin (63) • United States 9 Feb 07

Hi, everyone. I've set my mind on making cupcakes this weekend, and I really want to have a homemade cream cheese frosting to put on my dark chocolate cupcakes (I HATE the canned cream cheese frostings! Too sweet!). Does anyone...

baking

cream cheese

frosting

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whitlam100 Hi there, quick question about your recipe. Do you soften your butter by allowing it to warm up, or by beating it? I remember one time I beat butter with some (I think) cream cheese to soften it and ended up with something that looked like dried out rice...

11 Feb 07

Making Bread

bestisyettocome @bestisyettocome (1531) • United States 17 Jan 07

I have tried several different recipes, but I can't find one to make a loaf of bread to my liking. Once I made bread that was like a brick--too hard to even cut! My sister makes wonderful bread, and I did not inherit this. She...

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whitlam100 I bake a lot of bread and find that buns turn out better than bread if the dough isn't too happy. Try making a batch of buns - I just blogged a recipe with a video on my site (would paste a link, but it blocked me). The other factor that I sometimes get...

11 Feb 07

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