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Back in November I saw an article about Nutella changing their recipe[^], lower cocoa content with more skimmed milk powder and sugar, and decided to give it a try.
My impression was that the consistency was a a little more plastic like and taste was too sweet for my taste. Now this could have been because I had not had Nutella for almost three years but it reminded me of the Hostess Twinkies recipe change... which is to say not an improvement.
I'll admit I was tempted to throw the nearly full container through a window in disappointment, instead I just threw it out.
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Stupid French, it wasn't even Nutella covered bacon!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Nutella is quite delicious actually.
throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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It is pathetic but also normal.
It is often disaster that restores our faith in humanity and usually that greed diminishes it.
I don't eat Nutella as I find it too sweet, but when I see it, it always reminds me of french people.
I watched two Frenchmen having breakfast in Australia.
We couldn't converse as they had no English and I had no French.
They took their crossants and spread Vegemite really realy thickly on them, about 1 cm, thinking that the Vegemite was a form of Nutella from Down Under.
The look on their faces was priceless when they bit into their crossants.
They both spat it out and screamed like they were being murdered.
Lots of coffee was then used as an antidote.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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I was developing a small WordPress site for a client, and while looking for free hosting, just for staging, I found an outfit called CloudAccess.net[^] that offered free hosting of a WP site under certain very unclear conditions. But very easy, just click a button and WP is set up for you.
Great, I built and staged the site on Cloud Access, and did a file and DB backup to move the site to my prod ISP. Wednesday I took it live on my local ISP and all seemed fine. Today I found the site logo missing, and on inspect element I found the URL for the logo was an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. Then I tried an admin login, only to get a bad password error.
On closer inspection I now find that every single URL I have tried to use on our local, prod WP site is also an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. I now have to basically spend several hours tonight rebuilding the local site from scratch and just copying the content over from Cloud Access.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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You don't need hosting to develop Wordpress sites.
I normally use Free Portable Webserver (USBWebserver) - YouTube - With that you can run a wordpress site with MySql database access locally on your development machine - basically without internet connection at all.
Extremely easy to work with. It even runs from a USB stick if you should want that.
I highly recommend it! Best invention since sliced bread (and bacon)
I even have a USB stick with a portable USBWebServer instance and a standard Wordpress installation with the most used plugins. So whenever I need to develop a new site, I just update Wordpress to the latest version, copy it - and Presto! I'm up and running.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onllokers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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So how does my client that is some 400 km away access and review the site?
Otherwise all I do is switch on Apache and MySql and develop away, but then I'd be sending my client several screenshots several times a day and playing email tennis.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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You get what you pay for.
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Yeah, well, the client has dragged a 2 day project on for 3 months, and without the income from the project, I can't afford paid hosting at the moment.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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Rant of the Year in January, you are quite optimistic for the rest of this year.
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[Chinese] New Year - Feb 16. Oh, and next year will be a dog!
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Please read that as Rant of the Year (so far)
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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If this is your rant of the year, you cannot have much troubles in the next 340 days.
[EDIT:] Oh sorry Rage, about the repost.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Is it just me, or have all the articles on the home page taken leave?
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I think the hamsters are struggling all round today....
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C'mon! It's Friday. They went out for some cold beers.
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They would be out of luck in England. There you get only warmed up beer.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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English rules to remember:
1) Drink your tea before it gets to warm
2) Drink your beer before is gets to cold.
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3) Don't mix up "to" and "too".
(Or "two". Or "tutu".)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I thought they were in Canada; if they went out their would freeze
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It was happening for me too, now can see articles but the site is running too slow today
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They probably did the "updates" to prevent the potential malware threats and those are having a serious affect on the performance of the site.
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There is a "category" filter, e.g. www.codeproject.com?cat=3 will only show C# articles and ?cat=30 means ".NET Core".
And rather than showing the N most recent ones, there seems to be a time limit, so you may well select a category that doesn't hold any artcle considered suficiently recent; that's when you get nothing.
Furthermore if you somehow omit the cat parameter (or specify cat=0), it will remember the previous setting.
And then there are some peculiarities:
- ?cat=1 corresponds to the "All" button, but it does not imply you will see all articles, you may even see none at all, go figure.
- and once you established "All" you get more buttons, but some suddenly are missing others such as "C#" and "F#". What a mess.
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Okay all you roo fu lovers, have a good 'Stralia Day and try to keep MM off the OP until at least after breakfast!
veni bibi saltavi
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We should celebrate this day with a game of Handegg!
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature))
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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