Archive for January, 2012

The Fixie: A cocktail for Portland

At my most recent cocktail party, a guest brought a gift of Ransom Old Tom Gin. Old Tom is a lovely old style gin with lots of infused flavor, very different from what you might expect. Malty, spicy, complex. It’s very good over ice with with a big lemon peel, though we failed to make a good [...]

HTML5 Cut the rope

Microsoft is promoting an HTML port of the popular iPhone game “Cut the rope” as a part of their marketing and promotion of Internet Explorer 10. It works well in Safari (and probably Chrome too). They include a ‘behind the scenes’ page where they discuss some of the technologies used. It’s fairly interesting but includes some [...]