Tube Hotels

Tube Hotels - hotels near London Underground stations

最近有一个很hot的话题,就是web 2.0了.我看了这个网站就得它可能不是web2.0的应用,只不过是Google Map 的API应用罢了.但是它确有很强的生命力.

我记得很久以前,有人在香港特意出了一本书介绍不同地铁站附近的厕所,这个有异曲同工的味道!

Desert Idea: - Peach and Amaretti Semifreddo

What's Amaretti biscuit?
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Preparation: 20mins
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• 90g amaretti biscuits
• 250g mascarpone cheese
• 80g icing sugar
• 2 X 284ml tubs low-fact crea, lightly whipped
• 2 large ripe peaches, peeled, stoned and cut in to eight slices
• Clear honey, to serve

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1. Line a 2lb loaf tin with clingfilm. Put 30g of the amarettei biscuits into a plastic bag and bash with a rolling pin until finely crushed. Arrange the crushed biscuits over the bottom of the loaf tin.
2. Beat together the mascarpone and icing sugar. Fold in the cream. Add on third of the cream mixture on top of the araretti biscuits in the tin then arrange four peach slices on top. Roughtly crush the reamaining biscuits and scatter halif in between the peach slices.
3. Cover with another third of the cream mixture (making sure there are no gaps), the remaining peach slices and the rest of the crushed biscuits in between. Cover with the last of the cream mixture.
4. Cover with clingfilm and freeze until firm. Remove from the freezer 20 mins before serving. Cut into slices to serve. Dizzle with clear honey!!!

Weetabix breakfast idea for it website

以下是我从http://www.theweetabixweek.co.uk的到的资讯，它建议我每天都用它的产品来作早餐，不过不知道它的盐含量多不多？？？

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The Weetabix Week makes it easy to have a healthy, nutritious breakfast showing you an inspiring collections of tasty, simple serving suggestions to help keep breakfast interesting. Here is the full list of recipes we have pulled together, but if you have your own favourite click here and let us know what it is.

• 2 Weetabix, hot milk and chocolate dusting
• 2 Weetabix, hot milk, cinnamon and raisins
• 2 Weetabix, jam and low fat spread
• 2 Weetabix, milk and Alpen sprinkling
• 2 Weetabix, milk and fruit face (dried fruit, apricots, strawberry and sliced banana)
• 2 Weetabix, milk with kiwi, mango and melon
• 2 Weetabix, milk, apples and raisins
• 2 Weetabix, milk, Greek yoghurt (0% fat) and chopped walnuts
• 2 Weetabix, milk, Greek yoghurt and honey (not suitable for under 1)
• 2 Weetabix, milk, natural yoghurt (0%) fat and raspberry compote
• 2 Weetabix, milk, raspberries, strawberries and blackberries
• 2 Weetabix, milk, sliced banana and toasted flaked almonds
• 2 Weetabix, milk, vanilla yoghurt, semi dried apricots and raisins
• 2 Weetabix, fruit smoothie
• 2 Weetabix, strawberry pouring yoghurt and sliced strawberries.

The 14 Best Foods Ever

This week, I read the article on Mens Fitness that suggest there're 14 best food ever for us health:

1. Carrots
2. Mackerel
3. Garlic
4. Oats
5. Bananas
6. Kiwi
7. Blueberries
8. Tomatoes
9. Broccoli
10. Walnuts
11. Watercress
12. Quinoa (这个究竟是什么东东？）
13. Chicken
14. Oliver Oil

Bullying Online The UK's #1 Bullying Resource

Bullying Online The UK's #1 Bullying Resource

Bulling is a cruetly, and very effect the way child grows up. I think this website very help purpils, and parents to gain information about how to prevent it.

Check it out....

ASDA Healthy Living

ASDA Healthy Living - Welcome!

我其实都看过不少超级市场的健康网站，但是我觉得这个可以很棒！特别是有很多factfeet，而且每个月都有superfood of the month！

芽菜鸡肉沙拉

Cooked Chicken, cucumbers, red pepper, spring onion, carrot, lemon, sesame oil and soy source.

芽茶不合适我们作为沙拉，我回想其用烧鸡的肉，加上garlic应该很好吃。

Cool Lunch Idea.....

黑鬼又如何？

阿姨经常说在英国我们要特别注意黑鬼和阿叉。因为黑鬼经常用假币，阿叉浑身都是奇怪的味！！

很多时候我都在想这是典型的种族歧视，我们不应该这样。回想新中国刚成立的时候谁和我们最亲？不是黑人的第三世界么？现在我们又在非洲推行能源外交，歧视都不是很好。

“愿望是美好的，但是现实是残酷的！”

我上星期五上班的时候，一台白色的货车从outside lane突然插了进来，幸亏我们的司机Chris的及时反应，才免至一场车祸的发生。Chris但是让货车停在一旁，车下来了一个黑鬼！而且态度十分恶劣。

哀！！！

再看The X Factors

上个星期录的The X Factors还没有看完，今天不用上班就在家里无聊的看着。看到一些参加海选的人苦苦地哀求评判，让他们通过。我在想人生失落的时候都很多，为什么总要求人了？不过就不过罢了！！！

但是，我又在想如果在这个节骨眼的时候，你没有尽力去争取的话，日后会后悔的。其实这个节目都举行了好几年了，在我的印象中又没有什么一个哀求就通过的，哀！！！

x factors

一年一度的The X Factors又开始了，如果不是我上个星期无聊的时候看到电视预告，而且我又用了sky by mobile来控制我的sky plus，我都没有那么好运录上这个节目。

上星期六的节目到今天才有时间来看。这个节目的海选阶段不单好笑而且又有很多温情的部分。

面包店的推销

每天下班的时候都会经过这个维多利亚火车站(Victoria Station),每天的人流都有很多,因为Gatwick Express还有南部的货车交通都从这里出发,这样的一个平台对于很多商家来说是一个极好的推销平台.

今天就遇上了面包公司在做推销。开始的时候还以为有免费面包送，但是只有涂了牛油的一片面包试吃。。。唉！！！！

还是放弃了，因为吃了面包要刷牙,不划算.....

究竟我的这个Blog要写一些什么呢?

我开始写这个Blog已经有一段时间了,但是很多时候都没有focus。我想了很久,也看过不同人的blog,觉得就要有自己的特性。

首先我要将每天的所见所闻记录下来，何况我又有一个camera的手机。第二我现在没有了hot lunch，所以我要把我枯燥的午餐记录下来，因为我很馋嘴......

我们要坚决抵制iTune 和iPod

10 reasons why I’ll swap my iPod for a Zune

I was given an iPod as a birthday gift a couple of years ago. Immediately, I fell in love with it, and it revolutionised my listening habits. It looks good, it is easy to use, and my particular model stored 5,000 songs, about half of my CD-based music collection.

But my love affair quickly turned sour. Over time, I have experienced various problems with the iPod and iTunes, some of which are listed after the jump.

My iPod is theoretically full (well, it would be, had it not refused to upload 40% of my digital music catalogue), meaning that I need a new one with more storage space, but because of these issues I’m going to wait for Microsoft’s ‘Zune’. I don’t expect MS to fix everything, but I just can’t commit to investing in another overhyped, underperforming device from Apple, beautiful as they are.

So here are my top 10 issues with iPod and iTunes:

1. iTunes = TOO EXPENSIVE. You pay over the odds for albums that often cost way less on Amazon. So if you’re prepared to wait for a CD to arrive then do so, because you get some added extras like packaging and artwork, and hey, it’s a hard copy! Ok, iTunes is great when you just want one or two tunes, but you end up buying full albums. One Cocteau Twins ‘box set’ was being sold on iTunes for twice the price of the much nicer hard copy - ?35 vs ?18. Outrage!

2. iTunes = TOO SINGLE-MINDED. Variable pricing is needed, especially for the indie labels and the vintage material. Blame the greedhead record execs for this. I can’t come to terms with buying a new tune for the same sort of money that I pay for something that’s already made millions in profit for these swine. Or that the really weird only-me-and-three-others-will-buy-it-this-year song costs the same as some guff from Coldplay. But no, some obscure track costs the same as a new, uberpopular, 15-weeks-at-number-1 hit single.

3. iTunes = UNFORGIVING. It gives you the songs once, and no more, so you have to remember to make backups. You can’t download them again! And yes, I'm bitter, I forgot (procrastinated / relied on my iPod for backup). I just didn’t get to this in time and my rubbish Dell laptop died some months ago, leaving me 40% stuffed (see 6. for calculations). Like I said, buying a CD gives you a hard copy to begin with, so why bother with iTunes? iTunes suggests that you always backup downloads. Presumably you need to buy blank CDs to create ‘hard’ backups. Ridiculous, when you can just buy the CD to begin with, for less money.

4. iTunes = HORRIBLE USER EXPERIENCE. But it’s APPLE! Apple wins design awards! Jonathan Ives! Righty-ho. Well here it is: iTunes sucks, from a usability perspective. I may save my bitchin’ for a whole new post ? that’s how sucky it is. Clunky, heavy, image rich, slow, imprecise, poor search functionality, no watchlist. Why can’t I search by label? Why can’t I properly personalise iTunes? How come it doesn’t seem to remember which albums I have bought, when recommending me new material? I think Apple has missed a trick in this area.

5. iPod = CRASH. It’s gonna happen, happens all the time. I’ve stopped shuffling ‘All Songs’, because, like a blind alcoholic driving a bus with faulty brakes, that’s a guaranteed crash-in-waiting. Sometimes it will stick on one song, keep you waiting, then move to another, repeat several times, then play the opening of a song before giving up entirely. This forces you to perform a hard reset. Sometimes, a hard reset will put the iPod in a coma for days, before you see a miraculous recovery, like some kind of gift from the iPod Gods. And you, poor iPod user, remain none the wiser. The brave can opt for a factory reset, but then you need to re-upload all of your songs. Pain! Woe! Craaaash!

6. iPod = FALSE DAWN. Believe me, if you’re a music fan who hasn’t made the switch to digital music players then you don’t know what you’re missing. You will be amazed at how an iPod changes your listening behaviour. But then, it will Let You Down, as technology often does. Sometimes you are told that you MUST update your iPod, even if it is working perfectly, and sometimes this course of action results in Big Problems. Technology is never simple, is it? Figuring out how to make iTunes and iPods work when things go awry is not straightforward. I couldn’t get mine to speak to one another for a number of annoying weeks. When it finally did start talking it only uploaded about 60% of my music catalogue. And then my Dell laptop stopped working, so now I’ve lost 40% of my digital music collection.

7. iPod = UNETHICAL? Apple has been on the receiving end of accusations about using sweatshops in China (The Mail On Sunday pointed the finger last month). Sure, iPods look pretty cool, but would you feel comfortable paying ?300 for a device built by “workers, who work 15-hour days but are paid just $50 a month - miserable even by China's standards”?

8. iTunes = PROPRIETARY FILE FORMAT. A ghastly, lock-in strategy from Apple, which doesn’t realise that people don’t like this sort of thing. It will be interesting to see what Microsoft’s Zune offers, in terms of acceptable file formats. We do know that it is “planning to let you download for free any songs you've already bought from the iTunes Music Store”.

9. iPods = QUALITY ISSUES? Not according to VP of iPod Marketing Greg Joswiak, who says the iPod has a 5% first-year failure rate, compared with 30% for many mobile devices. But there have been many reports of breakages, of battery failures, of scratchy surfaces. And hey, 5% of the 8.1m iPods sold in the last three months is 405,000, which is a lot of broken devices.

10. iPod = NOT ZUNE! Yup, MS is going mano e mano with Apple, which currently dominates the digital music space with about 80% market share. This is almost certainly going to fall with the release of Zune, which we also expect will enlarge the overall market. Don’t bet against Microsoft, not when it is this serious. It is planning to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into the Zune rollout, and has a 5-year strategic plan. Serious Commitment. Look at how well MS has done in establishing the Xbox as a competitor to Sony’s PS2. At the time, many thought launching a console was folly. I’m highly likely to give Zune a whirl when it is launched. Especially if it is Wi-Fi-enabled. And, of course, for the 9 above reasons…

this is so funny

Try a search for "online marketing strategy consultant" on Google - you get no results!

Top five legal service sitw

We might or might not need it, but just in case for a reference:

Legal service shop

Advice Now

Law on the Web

Desktop Lawyer

The Law Society

连以色列人也反对以色列无理占领

www.jfjfp.org:

Jews for Justice for Palestinians is a network of Jews who are British or live in Britain, practising and secular, Zionist and not. We oppose Israeli policies that undermine the livelihoods, human, civil and political rights of the Palestinian people.

What is Israel doing?
A call by Jews in Britain.

We watch with horror the collective punishment of the people of Gaza. Everything reasonable must be done to secure Corporal Gilad Shalit锟斤拷s safe release but nothing Israel is doing contributes to that aim. Instead, it is using its enormously superior military might to terrorise an entire people.

Destruction of the fragile Gaza infrastructure will not release Shalit. Bombing power stations and cutting off fuel supplies deprives people of electricity, refrigeration, pumped drinking water and sewage disposal services. It holds hostage hospital patients on life support systems, or undergoing dialysis. It brings the threat of epidemics and starvation.

As Gideon Levy wrote in the Israeli daily Ha锟斤拷aretz, this is 锟斤拷not only pointless, but锟斤拷 blatantly illegitimate锟斤拷. Gilad Shalit has become a pawn in the Israeli government锟斤拷s ongoing battle to topple the democratically-elected government of the Palestinians.

Presenting this as an isolated hostage-taking incident ignores Israel锟斤拷s regular snatching of Palestinians from their homes. Thousands are held in 锟斤拷administrative detention锟斤拷 without trial, women and children amongst them. A doctor and his brother 锟?C civilians 锟?C were kidnapped from their home in Al Shouka, near Rafah, the day before Corporal Shalit was captured. Like him, they need to be returned to their families in the established practice of prisoner exchange. And all elected MPs, punitively imprisoned by Israel in recent days, must be immediately released.

For the US and its allies merely to call for 锟斤拷restraint锟斤拷 is desperately inadequate 锟?C and evidently ineffective. This is a situation that requires determined action by the international community.

Support those Israelis protesting against their government锟斤拷s destructive actions.

Write to your MP to demand that the British Government act to achieve an immediate ceasefire.

Write to the Israeli embassy. Make them understand their actions are wrong, their explanations unconvincing.

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手提电脑的维修

http://www.laptopstuff.co.uk/

also try those, they are for ipod, psp, headphone,

http://www.iworld.co.uk

http://www.pspworld.co.uk

http://www.headphoneworld.com

Shopping in London - the market scene

There are too many markets in London, like to wholesale veg/fruit market in west London, wholesale seafood market near stradford.

But most of the tourists would visit those first of all:

l Spitalfields Market (liverpool st)
http://www.visitspitalfields.com/

l Greenwich Market (Cutty Sark DLR/Greenwich)
http://www.greenwichmarket.net/

l Borough Market (London Bridge)
http://www.boroughmarket.org.uk/

l Farmer���s Market
http://www.lfm.org.uk/

l Portobello Market (Notting Hill Gate)
http://www.portobelloroad.co.uk/

l Camden Market (Camden Town)
http://www.camdenlockmarket.com/

Shopping in London

Reading this weeks��� TNT Magazine (http://www.tntmagazin.co.uk/), I found something very interesting that would benefit someone wants to visit London for shopping.

A List of shopping area in London.

l Convert Garden (Covent Garden),
Trendy clothing and shoes, handmade goods and ree street theatre

l East End (Shoreditch/liverpool St)
Unusual accessories and gifts

l Tottenham Court Road (Tottenham Court Road / Goodge St)
Gadgets and electrical goodies

l Marylebone High Street (Bond St / Baker St)
Classy clothing and delish chow

l Kensington High Street (High street Kensington)
Big chain clothing and bargains

l Oxford Street (Oxford Circus / Bond st)
Top Shop threads, fashionable streetwear and home furnshings

l Kinghtsbridge and Kings Road (Knightsbridge / Sloane Square)
Harrods souvenirs and super stylish (and pricey) shoes

FW: A letter from Eric Schmidt, CEO

I received this as one of the Google blog RSS feed. I feel that:
1. US is too big to control all the major tech of the world.
2. Our life is more and more rely on Internet, we should have a way to protect our privacy.
3. Internet is ours, not US potilitians....

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From: Inside AdSense Team
Posted At: Thursday, June 08, 2006 5:06 PM
Posted To: Inside AdSense
Conversation: Inside AdSense
Subject: A letter from Eric Schmidt, CEO

Freedom of access to information on the Internet is a topic that we believe is of great interest and importance to Inside AdSense readers. Our CEO Eric Schmidt has written a letter to you, our publishers, on the subject of "net neutrality" -- read below for the full text:

Dear AdSense Publisher,

There's a debate heating up in Washington, DC on something called "net neutrality" ��� and the outcome of this debate may very well impact your business. Therefore, we are taking the unprecedented steps of calling your attention to this looming crisis and asking you to get involved.

Sometime in the next few days, the House of Representatives is going to vote on a bill that would fundamentally alter the Internet. That bill would give the big phone and cable companies the power to choose what you will be able to see and do on the Internet.

Today the Internet is an information highway where anybody ��� no matter how large or small, how traditional or unconventional ��� has equal access to everyone else. On the Internet, a business doesn't need the network's permission to communicate with a customer or deploy an innovative new service. But the phone and cable monopolies, who control almost all broadband Internet access, want the power to choose who gets onto the high-speed lanes and whose content gets seen first and fastest. They want to build tollbooths to block the on-ramps for those whom they don't want to compete with and who can't pay this new Internet tax. Money and monopoly, not ideas and independence, will be the currency of their Internet.

Under the proposed "pay-to-play" system, small- and medium-sized businesses will be placed at an automatic disadvantage to their larger competitors. Those who cannot afford the new Internet tax ��� or who want to compete directly with the phone and cable companies ��� will be marginalized by slower Internet access that will inevitably make their sites less accessible, and therefore less appealing.

Creativity, innovation and a free and open marketplace are all at stake in this fight. Imagine an Internet in which your access to customers is constrained by your ability to cut a deal with the carriers. Please call your representative in Congress at 202-224-3121. For more information on the issue, and more ways to make your voice be heard, visit www.ItsOurNet.org.

Thank you for your time, your concern and your support.

Eric Schmidt
CEO of Google Inc.

P.S. -- If you are unsure of who represents you in Congress, you can look them up by zip code at http://www.house.gov. And if you would like to stay informed about this issue, and other policy issues affecting Google, you can opt-in to our policy mailing list at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/googlepolicy/subscribe (powered by Google Groups).

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