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minus thirty degrees and dropping...
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The temperature minus thirty degrees and dropping.
The first taste of winter this winter. We can't complain, temperatures hovering at the +10, +12, degree Celsius range, now, however, winter's here.
In the morning the temperature in the house is 10 degrees. I crank the heat, the cats perch upon the vents, clouds of fur and dried cat-feces fill the air. Winter's here.
Probably the best hot chocolate in the world
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Now I'd bought myself some hot chocolate discs - premium, at a correspondingly high price, while doing my Xmas shopping, and never gotten around to trying them. So today I brought one in and frothed some milk and stirred it up - chipotle chile & chocolate, a curious combination, but I'm a curious guy.
It was amazing. Not sweet, simply rich, pure chocolate. The best hot chocolate in the world. Now I'm curious to try their other flavours....
Pure Leadership
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Walking with the boy through Kensington we pass a shop, or ground level office space, the window decorated with a logo of a naked man surrounded by rays of what presumably are light, or enlightenment, above is text advertising "Pure Leadership", beneath it the word "Homoluminous".
"Use that in conversation 5 times today" I tell the boy. It's the challenge.
We peer through the window, I've walked past this shop before. It's an office space, computers, desks, the floor covered in file folders and stray papers, on the desk beside the apple-branded computers are large rock crystals, geodes, there's a magic carpet carelessly knotted underneath the castors of the desk chair, a globe upon another desk, and I find myself wondering who on earth buys this bollocks. Really. I mean, what are they teaching leadership skills for? Getting people to drink the kool-aid? Who in their right mind walks into their office and looks at the mess of new age paraphernalia scattered across the desks and floor and decides that these people have something to teach them?
"Without seeming prejudiced" I tell him "It's pure bullshit".
Improving your online reviews
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At the restaurant we're besieged with sales calls.
The latest a scam to "improve" your online reviews - reputation management, as it were, the theory being that if you pay this company money they'll improve your restaurants/business reviews by posting loads of bogus reviews that rave about the service, or - as has been done in the US, simply by logging in and deleting negative reviews, because coincidentally they happen to own the reviewing websites.
Now this completely undermines the "fairness" inherit in the process of reviewing restaurants, and destroys whatever use the internet might have had in helping customers decide where they would like to dine. Never mind that, in this instance it's not about the customers, it's about the reviews (and one has to wonder then if these companies don't perhaps stoop to posting negative reviews themselves, just so that they can remove them later for a fee....).
In short, it's a fucking scam of the worst order.
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