Here’s what you do:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

BTW, the Carob chips were tried once and never will be eaten again by me again. never. ever.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin - I believe this is what is called Kina in New Zealand
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine Still wondering if it was worth the headache….
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill on a bet
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant. (This is definitely on my list to do though!)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

I do have an issue in that I don’t always remember the name of what I’ve eaten, especially in Yum Cha. Its a bit of pain because when it turns out to be nom nom tasty, it’s a bugger to reorder at a later date !!

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Hawk’s full post here, but the short story is that Hawk was accosted by Simon Blint, Director of Visitor Relations at the Museum and escorted off the premises by a couple of paid goons, despite others in the museum taking pictures. Hawk’s crime may have been the use of a serious camera (a DSLR), but he had gone out of his way to confirm he was ok to take pictures, and had become a paid up member of the Museum. If the policy did indeed prevent DSLR’s (that there would be a split is odd) then this should have been related clearly along the way, when it wasn’t. This leaves leaves no excuse for what happened to him.

However, as Hawk points out, it is not just about museum photography…

Over the course of the past year I’ve heard hundreds of stories where photographers were unjustly targeted for taking pictures. While the “photography steals your soul,” superstition seems to be long gone, a whole litany of replacements have taken it’s place. I’ve seen people branded as pedophiles for shooting at public parks or their neighborhood swimming pool. I’ve seen people claiming 9/11 makes checking photography necessary. I’ve seen train stations and malls and shopping centers and museums and parks and public buildings and architecture increasingly turn against the photographer. And when this happens and when people see something that has happened to them at one point or another happening to someone else it resonates.

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We’re not this young, beloved, entrepreneurial enterprise anymore… We have to do business in a different way

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There’s an old engineering adage: “Fast, good, cheap: pick two.” (Where
“fast” regards development time, not performance.) Desktop Linux
software is cheap (free) and fast (release early, release often), but
it’s not good.

Or, perhaps one could argue that it is cheap, and eventually it’s going
to be good, but it’s getting there very slowly.

Windows and Mac OS, on the other hand, are fast and good. For the sake
of this discussion, it doesn’t matter which is better and which is
improving faster. What matters is that neither is cheap. It’s very
difficult to beat the fast/good/cheap rule.

For example, look at how much Mac OS X has improved in the last three
years alone. Even if desktop Linux is improving — and I do think it is
— it’s improving at a much slower pace than Mac OS X.

…..

More often than not, you get what you pay for.

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One Hundred Push Ups is a site dedicated to providing a progressive push up training program that will have you doing 100 consecutive push ups in just six weeks, no matter how many you can do today.

Derek Semmler dot com is running a 100 Push Up Challenge - Join Me And Win.

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You’ll need to complete the following steps.

1. Head over to Gmail and sign in as usual.
2. Once that is done paste the following line of Javascript code into the location bar of Firefox 3 and hit enter. This will add Gmail as one additional protocol handler for the mailto protocol:javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","Gmail")
3. A line will appear on top of the screen asking if you want to add Gmail as an application for mailto links. A click on Add Application adds the handler, a click on the X button closes the request and changes nothing.
4. Now head over to Tools > Options > Applications in Firefox 3 and filter for the mailto protocol.
5. Use the drop down menu on the right side to select Gmail as the default client for mailto links and make sure to hit ok to confirm the change.

Congratulations, you just added Gmail as the default Firefox 3 Mail Client.

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1. It’s not secure. Certain companies and industries have to maintain strict watch on their data at all times, either because they’re legally obligated to or because they’re super paranoid.
2. It can’t be logged, required for compliance purposes.
3. It’s not platform agnostic. If you need to support multiple platforms, as most enterprises do, then you’re looking at multiple clouds. That can be a nightmare to manage.
4. Reliability is still an issue. Even inside an enterprise, data centers or servers go down, but generally the communication around such outages is better and in many cases, fail-over options exist.
5. Portability isn’t seamless. The so-called “cloud” is in fact made of up several clouds, so getting your data from one to another isn’t as easy as IT managers would like. The platform issues (above) can leave data in a format that few or no other cloud accepts, and there are bandwidth costs associated with moving data from one cloud to another.
6. It’s not environmentally sustainable. As a recent article in The Economist pointed out, the emergence of cloud computing isn’t as ethereal as it might seem. Moving data center operations to the cloud and off corporate balance sheets is kind of like chucking your garbage into a landfill rather than your yard; The problem is still there but you no longer have to look at it.
7. Cloud computing still has to exist on physical servers. The data still resides on servers somewhere, and the physical location of those servers is important under many nation’s laws. For example, Canada is concerned about its public sector projects being hosted on U.S.-based servers because under the U.S. Patriot Act, it could be accessed by the U.S. government.
8. The need for speed still reigns at some firms, but data in the cloud means problems with latency inherent in transmitting data across the country or globe.
9. Large companies already have an internal cloud. Many big firms have internal IT shops that act as a cloud to the multiple divisions under the corporate umbrella. Not only do these internal shops have the benefit of being within company firewalls, but they generally work hard — from a cost perspective — to stay competitive with outside cloud resources, making the case for sending computing to the cloud weak.
10. Bureaucracy will cause the transition to take longer than building replacement housing in New Orleans. Big companies are conservative, and transitions in computing can take years to implement. A good example is the challenge HP faced when trying to consolidate its data center operations.

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Please note: While on-screen keyboards offer protection against hardware keyloggers, they do not offer protection against software keyloggers (which are far more common). They are primarily intended as an accessibility tool or for alternate means of text entry (pen-based computing, etc).

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