Easy Chocolate Dessert

1. MELT THE CHOCOLATE
   Line 1kg loaf tin with cling film. Melt the chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water, then add the butter and stir until smooth. Remove from the heat and let it cool. Or microwave for 2 mins on high , then stir in the butter until smooth.
2. WHIP THE CREAM
   Whisk the whipping cream until thick. Gradually stir into the cooled chocolate.
3. LAYER IN THE TIN
   Dip a few of the biscuits in the sherry then lay them in the tin, top with a layer of chocolate and then repeat the layers finishing with a layer of biscuits on top. Dip the biscuits in the sherry as you use them so they dont get too wet and disintegrate. Cover the tin with foil. place a weight on top and put in the fridge and leave for at least 4 hours or overnight.

Superfast Crunchu Fish Pie

1. Heat the oven to fan 170c/conventional 190c/gas5. Put the fish into a large pie dish, sprinkle over the peas, add the Philadelphia and gently mix everything together.
2. Toss the bread cubes in the melted butter. Scatter them over the pie filling and sprinkle with cheddar cheese. Bake for 45 mins until the topping is crisp.

Wellbeing on the web: the top 50 health sites - Health - Times Online

Wellbeing on the web: the top 50 health sites - Health - Times Online


Good for learning English, also very good as a quick reference in case you have something wrong.

watch TV at your PC

watch TV at your PC is not actually a new thing, as you can easlier to get a TV card install at your PC, job DONE!!

However, things becomes more challenging now, we want better access and good quality.

Therefore, new options come avaiable for you now.

First of all, Slingbox which you can watch TV wherever you are with Internet connection. Good!

The other two options is only for those dont affort to buy a new Digital TV. What I said "digital TV", because both of these options support digital funtion, like fast forward, reward etc. The use wireless connection to transmit TV data.

1. Showcenter 200 from Pinnaclesys

2. MediaMVP from Hauppauge

Amazon.co.uk Filler Item Finder

Amazon.co.uk Filler Item Finder

This is another business opptunity.

Kris Brower uses his IT skill to set up this website and other similar websites that search the filler item for shopper to qualify the free delivery.

Like Amazon, you need 15pounds to qualify a free delivery, if you need any 2.58 to reach 15pounds, come here, it will give you idea.

Also, the link to Amazon is a affiliate link that Kris will get % of your shopping.

Very good.

Solar Charger

Scotty Solar Charger (Phone, Camera, GPS, PDA...)

This mobile phone charger can charge its own internal batteries or power an attached device in bright sunlight, so it's good substitue for mains power. It comes with mobile phone adaptors for several phones.

mySupermarket - The comparison site that saves you money at your supermarket

mySupermarket - The comparison site that saves you money at your supermarket

This is the latest supermarket comparsion site. Unlike others just list out the offer from different supermaket, this site does provide you very the best picture of the products, also very focus on the online shopping facility.

I doubt that, like Tesco offer its own "check the price" service, and this site does not give out detailed offers, how good is their service?

Anyway, the product pictures is very great that for other usage.

Free Secure Online Storage?Xdrive

Free Secure Online Storage?Xdrive

Far back to many many years ago, I am enjoying using this xdrive service, and all of sudden, it becames to charge us money. I had to drop it.

Now it comes back again under AOL's brand, with its free account, you will get 5GB space for storage, which is very good.

Also, it provide you a little tool that intergate with your window, you can easily manage your xdrive on the window interface, without opening the IE and loging........

I like it very much....... but still not sign up yet. Because I am using thinkfree service, providing online docs and spreadsheet editing service with 1GB space.

I like it as well.

PayPerPost :: Get Paid for Blogging, Blog Advertising, Advertise on Blogs

PayPerPost :: Get Paid for Blogging, Blog Advertising, Advertise on Blogs

How important of blog nowadays?

Very important, because numbers of the blog would actually increase the brand awareness, particular when people search on Google.

Therefore, some brand owerners make the treats, and the agency helps them as well. Like this company links all the parties together, ask the blogger to write things for the brand, obviously it is about good thing.

It reminds me that my master project, product placement.

Great Media company

I always have great passion about media. I am very enjoy the show like xfactor, wife swap etc. The I think who is the company behind it, it called "talkback", I think lots of their programme actually have great quality and good potential to sell.

First thing come up to my mind was I need to buy some of Talkback's share, if it is listed in London market.

However, it is owned by another media company " is the UK part of FremantleMedia"


Then I went to see FremantleMedia, it own by RTLGroup, a very big media company in Europe, to my surprise, it owned by a very famous multi-media company Bertelsmann.

And Bertelsmann is not listed in London, it is a German company!

How complex it is!

Sell your home for a one off payment of fifty nine pounds with ClickSell

Sell your home for a one off payment of fifty nine pounds with ClickSell

looking for a property like right4move.co.uk is very popular. However, they only advertise from the agent. But this time, we can seel house directly, using this website.

However, it seems that the selling does not need to compile to any regulation at all.

Similar wesbites are:
www.naea.co.uk
www.buyitprivately.com
www.homesell.co.uk
www.houseweb.com
www.mousesale.co.uk

Good luck

Greek Oliver oil dressing

Last week, I had a very healthy lunch, all of them are just pepper, cucumber, and celely.

However, the veg are very dry, I need some dressing. Usually, I will add some vinger, but this time I have something from marks and spencer. That's Greek olive oil dressing with lemon juice & mint.

They coming from:

sunflower oil, white wine vinegar, lemon juice, sugar, dijon mustard, garlic, salt, oregano, mint, parsley, cracked black pepper.

Then I bought some dijon mustard from Tesco. I think I can make my own dressing by using some garlic, lemon juice, and oliver oil.

Good Luck

Beef Watch

I like eating steak, but not all the time. The only good shop I know for good steak are:
Beef eater, the Angus steak house and some good pub.

However, I saw this article on The London paper which is very good, but I dont think put a beef into a bun is a good idea though.

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Putting beef back in the bun by Humayun Hussain, Wednesday 11 October 2006 15:00

There was a time when eating a burger was either a guilty pleasure or something you did late at night after a skinful.

After all, who would willingly bite into a burger served in grim cafes with formica-topped tables without a strong drink inside them?

Wimpy was eclipsed in the 1970s by the arrival of the American giants McDonald’s and Burger King. But while their products were marginally more palatable, they were arguably no better for you.

These days a new breed of burger joint is boasting patties made with meat from animals “naturally reared, grass fed and free range”.

Beef isn’t just beef, it’s “100 per cent beef” that has either been “hung” or “aged”.

The range of choice has ?increased, too. You can get burgers made of barn-reared chicken, chorizo sausage, or even citrus marinated halloumi.

Sides will include “hand-cut” chips rather than the ubiquitous fries. Salads may well feature vine ripened ?tomatoes and roasted red peppers. To drink, there’s the choice of smoothies and imported beers.

Even Gordon Ramsay’s Boxwood Caf??, in Knightsbridge, does a veal and foie gras burger with parmesan, cos lettuce and chips for a whopping ??22.50.

McDonald’s may have invested ?140 million in a modernisation drive this year, to launch new colour schemes and furniture ?including “Big Brother” style chairs. Still, the hottest names for gourmet-style burgers in London are Hach??, Hamburger Union, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Fine Burger Company and Ultimate Burger.

Berry Casey, managing ?director of Hach?? in Camden, says his establishment is based on the burger concept, but run along the lines of a restaurant.

“The burger is just like any other food,” he says. “It’s there to be enjoyed. Customers should be able to sit down and eat the burger in their own time.

“In most burger joints, the moment queues start building up, you get harassed-looking staff behind the counter getting all robotic, shouting at their colleagues and smiling even less.”

At Hach??, the burger patty is made from 100 per cent Aberdeen Angus beef from the same London butcher that supplies the Queen. It is served in a 5in ciabatta bun.

Its most popular burger is the Steak Canadian, which comes with sweet-cure bacon and mature cheddar cheese, costing ?7.95.

At Hamburger Union, which has four branches in and around Central London, not only do the gourmet-style burgers come in “single” and “double size”, each one of its ten or so burgers comes ?“protein style”, which means there is no bun. Instead, the burger is served between lettuce leaves.

“Public tastes are much more discerning now,” says Hamburger Union’s proprietor, Hugh Fowler. “With ?concerns over the BSE and foot-and-mouth outbreaks of recent years, people want to know where the beef comes from. But they also want greater choice, quality ingredients and more imaginative flavours in burgers.”

The bun for Hamburger Union’s burgers, which start at ?3.95, is made by Portuguese bakers while the menu declares that the chips are “proper chips, never frozen”.

Casey states that the burger is such a simple and wholesome food concept that it will always be popular.

“Burgers are now a part of the staple British diet, but what’s important is that the ingredients are healthy and made from top-end produce. This is why places like mine and others are proving so popular in London.”

Beef watch
Hach??24 Inverness Street NW1 7HJ Tel: 020 7485 9100
hacheburgers.com

Hamburger Union4-6 Garrick Street WC2E 9BH Tel: 020 7379 0412

hamburgerunion.com

Gourmet Burger Kitchen44 Northcote Road SW11 1NZ Tel: 020 7228 3309
gbkinfo.com

Fine Burger Company 330 Upper Street N1 2XQTel: 020 7359 3026
fineburger.co.uk

Ultimate Burger 34 New Oxford Street WC1A 1AP Tel: 020 7436 6641
ultimateburger.co.uk

China on SeekingAlpha

Site of the day = = 2-Oct

China on SeekingAlpha
http://china.seekingalpha.com

It is very amazing that such English news website has such good resource and in-depth news (mainly financial and stock market related). It provides lots links with RSS feed as well, very useful if you would like to keep in touch with the most powerful economic country.

Tynesoft Business Services

Site of the day === 01-Oct
Tynesoft Business Services
www.direct-mailing.co.uk

I just got a mail shot last week, on the envelope, it prints this web site. I went there to have a look, it is a company provides direct mail service. You can use your own data, they do the fuilment, or you hire their direct marketing data.

However, on the market, Yell and Thomason local sell business data as well.

I am thinking to target Indian takeaway/restraunt first of all.

share dealing

Recently, someone asked me about the benefit of buying share or use this as long term investment. He asked how's the benefit apart from the long term captical grown.

I think, being a shareholder, company should more or less give away some sweet to their investors(people put their money into their company business).

I found those two website is very helpful

http://www.sharecrazy.com/resources/perks.html
http://www.hargreaveslansdown.co.uk/siteredesign/online_guides/shareholder_perks/

When I was reading this, I found one good share "British Airway", although it had been hit since 9/11 and recently terror plot. However, and surprisely, its share grew more than the index.


Also, if you hold 200 share by Nov each year, they will send you five vouchers. Each vouchers enable you 10% discount off the published (includes "world offer") price for the following year.

Information sheet from their website.

More info:
http://www.bashareholders.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=69499&p=irol-shareholdersfaq#12763

Politician and liar

Nowadays, no one trusts a word what politicians said. I deeply understand what this means when I come over to the UK.....until very recently.

Tony Blair had fail to fulfill his election promise, but he never wants to leave.. such as a 恋栈权位.

If a PM keeps telling us lies, that it would be two situations:

1. like the hungrary PM, people trun out the street for a riot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5359546.stm

2. like the Thai PM, it would be coup by the military.

Such a "lucky" day, we have two examples happen on the same day...

在伦敦地铁卖艺

刚来英国的时候，觉得在地铁卖艺是一件容易的事情，其实不是：

Busking on the Tube was illegal until London Underground began allowing musicians to perform in stations in 2003. Would-be performers have to fill in an application form and pass an audition.

Waiting lists are up to six months long, but 80 per cent of those who apply are granted licences.

Licensed buskers phone the organisers every other Tuesday to reserve two-hour slots at the pitches of their choice for the following fortnight.

They are allowed three slots a week in the most popular places such as Leicester Square station, and a maximum of six hours a day in total.

Busking websites

www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/arts/busking: Transport for London information about getting a licence to busk on the Underground

www.livemusicforum.co.uk: A campaign group to review the laws restricting live music in England and Wales, which make it easier for buskers to do their thing

List of busking competitions across Britain

Further details are available at www.vocalist.org.uk/gigs_busking.html

Licensing information for street art is at
ww.artscouncil.org.uk/publications/

7 Days in September

以下是Google video 发给我的其中一个RSS文章.昨天是9/11事件的五周年,这个是一个美国的导演制作的一小时短片,是采访不同的市民大众.

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From: A Googler
Posted At: Friday, September 08, 2006 8:43 PM
Posted To: GoogleBlog
Conversation: Official Google Blog
Subject: 7 Days in September

Posted by Cliff Samaniego, Google Video team

A while ago, New York filmmaker Steve Rosenbaum produced 7 Days in September which tells the story of a week -- September 11-18, 2001 -- with the help of many filmmakers and a multitude of perspectives. As Rosenbaum notes, "Those seven days are full of fear, anger, pain, loss, and a deep sense of community," adding that 7 Days "isn't meant to be an answer, but rather a sounding board that may help people to ask deeply personal questions." We're honored to share it with you on Google Video.

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再谈黑鬼

我之前曾经讨论过有关在英国黑鬼的问题。其实我并不是种族歧视，但是很多事实都主导者偏偏又是黑鬼。

但是上个星期，我的一个很好的同事离开了公司，大家都很舍不得他，然而他又是黑鬼。

他为人很好，虽然已经40多岁了还是保持着青春的活力，经常和我开玩笑。而且在公司工作了有六年了，认识了很多在不同部门工作的人，人缘特好。

我在想究竟是什么因素让我们对黑鬼有偏见呢？

这里我收集了香港电台的一分钟阅读的其中一端，《小心偏见》

按这里下载