A review of Paolo Nutini’s Sunny Side Up (2008) I’ll say it right up front: I think this is a great record. A great record that got a bum rap. It’s not that the critics didn’t (at least more or less) grasp what this is about, but few cared enough to focus on how fabulous [...]
Archive | July, 2009

The magic of vegetable stock cubes
I can trace my recent improvements on the vegetarian cooking front to one insight in particular (thanks to the stir fry section in Heidi Swanson‘s book, credited/linked below): that almost every stove-top vegetarian dish is vastly enhanced with vegetable stock cubes. Stock cubes are magical, easy-to-apply, highly compressed morsels of savoury goodness. They can add [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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- I learned what a stud finder is yesterday. I even bought one. I feel enlightened somehow. As if I can look through walls. 5 hours ago
- Bought an @umbra_ltd Conceal floating shelf & intend to put Eng. language reference books on it, near my PC. Simpler than Google 4 writing. 19 hours ago
- Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step. (Alain Finkielkraut) 2 days ago
- Music really is amazing. No matter how deeply you steep yourself in it, or for how long--there's always a fantastic new artist to discover. 2 days ago
- More world's worst brands: http://t.co/FEgngM6s 2 days ago
- How to accommodate low literacy readers in your web writing. http://t.co/2s1dKV52 3 days ago
- @dybskiy So what — are you staying? 3 days ago
- @joniv Absolutely. No issues. We're having the easiest winter in the history of winters this year... can't complain really :) 4 days ago
- @joniv Great - now I have that song in my head! Hope you're well :) 5 days ago
- It's 5:30pm, and - strangely - things are finally starting to flow (where I've been beating my head against a wall for most of the day). 6 days ago

