I'm at once repulsed and attracted by all these one-cup coffee machines, with their pods and buttons and false promises of crema. But, there's the waste, and the fact that I never just drink one cup. And the little filter-pucks of coffee just seem like they'd be impossible to be anything but stale.
However, with respect to that last point, I've just found the Keurig B50 and its K-Cups. These are little foil-sealed cups of ground coffee that only ever get unsealed when you turn on the machine. Seems like this might be a better way than filter pucks.
But then, I've never tried a Senseo, and will likely never buy that or a Keurig B50.
Just noticed that my DecafBland style for Colloquy has been sucked into the nightly builds. Hooray! Glad it's still living on despite my not having touched it in about a year.
Something damn cool I just discovered about OmniWeb's tab drawer:
You can group-select the window thumbnails. Once having done that, you can close them in groups, as well as drag them in groups into the drawers of other windows. This is a power-user's dream. It's one of those things that made sense to try, so I tried it, and was happily surprised to see it actually work.
OmniGroup is teh greetest!
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Nespresso is the way to go. It just works, the coffee is good and you get a Crema! (And everything!)
http://www.nespresso.com/
You can also Command-select items in the bookmark or history views and drag into a tab drawer to open them all. Beautiful browser.
Let me join in the OmniWeb lovefest with a qualification: oh, how I pine for Greasemonkey-esque functionality!
Used to have a Keurig machine at an old job - they coffee was good but nothing remarkable. Perhaps you can get better cups for it.
I have a one-cup French press. Takes a bit longer, but I don't have to worry about beng stuck with the Betamax of coffeemakers and having this huge machine that takes pods no one makes anymore.
I've tried most of them, the DouweEgberts, the Nescafe, the Nespresso, the Illy machines, the Senseo with regular/strong/Milano coffee pads.
Fact is, they never deliver the excellent expresso you find in cafes in Italy or Portugal. It's just a fact of life, I guess. Small machines => no great coffee. Here in Belgium it's even difficult to find good expresso in bars or restaurants.
Being an Italian living in Scotland I believe that you cannot get the same coffee anywhere else, since the quality of the water makes a big difference, even between cities in Italy coffee tastes completely different. I use a little mocha and buy Italian coffe but still..... not as good as a proper espresso!
And yes, Omniweb is the browser. I have tried all of them and despite not being the fastest one, I still go back to it. Best surfing experience!!
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