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Archive for October, 2009

Macs do Hebrew

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

I feel really bad about how long it’s been since I last posted! so…here is an attempt to remedy that.

I installed Mac OSX snow leopard today. Pretty much the only reason I got it was for the claimed improvements for handling right-to-left languages like Hebrew. For anyone that has tried to create a document with mixed English and Hebrew on a Mac you will know how incredibly frustrating it is!!

Well, at last it seems to work like it should. Latest version of OpenOffice.org and snowleopard = Hebrew without the cursing.

Rusty Nails (List #118)

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Well the brew is brewed and in my completely biased opinion…it tastes great!

A Sam, Nick G, Nick R and myself made the trek down to ‘the beer shed’ – a microbrewery type set up where you can brew your own. They gave us a stainless steel cauldron, a recipe, ingredients and a timer.

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Soon enough that was done and ready for fermentation…

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…4 weeks later, back to bottle and enjoy our very own “Rusty Nails Porter”

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