General: May 2005 Archives
TIPPINST - The profound advice in the title is taken from howstuffworks.com so with the week thats in it you may as well learn all the technology behind one.
Remember NEVER look down the "barrel" of a lightsaber, even if you are "sure" it is in safe mode. If you accidentally activate the lightsaber, serious injury could result.
Just realised that my site was 1 year old last tuesday. Its been an interesting year and looking back I can see the benefits of maintaining this site.
From a research perspective the MYSQL database back end is storing interesting articles and links that I have come across. The emails I have received from fellow researchers as a result of these articles have been worth the effort put in to them.
The Irish blogging community is an interesting group to "hang out" with, even though I tend to say little, I read and take in alot. I have come across many interesting sites and their respective authors. I am constantly blown away by the quality of the articles out there. This medium allows the author to write with out limits or worry about column inches. The discussion lately irishblogs group about "journalist privledge" for bloggers makes for interesting reading. There are alot of smart people out there and only for irishsilicon.com and the tangents that it creates I would have not been aware of their existence.
The one problem I have with irishsilicon is that it requires strict time management or else it turns in to a black hole in to which all time, productivity and phd effort gets sucked into.
TIPPINST - Its a sure sign that I am turning into a fully fledged parent when I start to worry about whats in the breakfast cereal that my 19 month old son is eating.
Kelloggs have been advertising a multigrain cereal with a prebiotic ingredient called Rice Krispies Muddles. This sounded to us like a nice alternative to the rice krispies that Eoin usually has for his breakfast. So we duly purchased a box, which turned out be more expensive than rice krispies (€3.75), when I opened the box one early morning the aroma of toffee and chocolate immediately struck me. My first reaction was we must have bought coco pops by mistake, when I checked the ingredients the sugar content (20g per 100g) is twice the level of rice krispies.
The caramel flavour was never something that was pushed in the adverts but when I had a look at kellogg's website they do mention it.
"Rice Krispies Muddles are a tasty, fun-shaped cereal made from rice, oats and maize with a light caramel flavour. Muddles are the first kids' breakfast cereal in the UK to contain a prebiotic ingredient, which means they offer a convenient and fun way to help to keep children healthy by promoting good digestive health."
I will beg to differ with Kellogg's assessment that this breakfast cereal promotes health, rather it promotes a sweet tooth. So its back to the Rice Krispies.
