A short writeup of cooking bacon on the George Foreman grill… Steps? What steps? Put bacon on grill, cook ~5 minutes, flip, cook ~3 more minutes. I’ve heard of folks who put the entirely slab of bacon on the grill at once, I’d love to hear how that turned out. Okay, you probably do want to make sure you’ve got enough dripping trays handy ahead of time (see below). Wins: It’s tasty bacon. In the grand scheme of things, I’d rank it #2. For reference, my taste preference in order is Pan/griddle, George Foreman, Fast Baking (high heat for 8-12 mins), and finally microwaving (only to be used when totally desperate and nobody can see you). I’ve yet to try slow baking or grilling on the BBQ, but I hear they’re both tasty options. Cleanup is much easier than pan/griddle cooking. While the GF is still hot, attack viciously with paper towels and toss the dripping trays in the dishwasher. Losses: Unless you’ve got the uber George Foreman, you can only do 3-4 slices at a time. I personally dont have (or want) the self control to just eat 3 slices of bacon, so it’s at least 13 minutes of baconizing. The average pack of bacon produces enough drippings to fill two of the little drip trays. The good news is, newer grills come with two trays. The bad news is, you’ll probably need to swap trays mid-cooking, which can be a delicate operation. I highly recommend having the 2nd tray (and bacon dripping jar if you’re into saving such things) at the ready before starting cooking.

The end result was some very tasty bacon - much less greasy than pan fried, but just as flavorful.

Okay, so it’s just Hitchhikers’ Guide right now, the key is that these guys have wired a Z-Machine (thats the interpreter) engine to a Jabber front end, so in theory, you could play all the old Infocom text games.

Chris Ilias’ Blog » Keeping threaded view in Thunderbird Users of Mozilla Thunderbird, may have noticed that if you are viewing messages in threaded view, clicking on a column name (other than the thread column) will turn off threaded view.

What if you want to keep threaded view on? Go to Tools–>Options–>Advanced–>General, and click on “Config Editor“. In the Config Editor, search for the preference mailnews.threadpanecolumn_unthreads. Double-click on it, which should change the value to false.

Full-on credit to Chris Ilias for posting this. Go visit his blog. It’s way better than mine (and certainly more frequently posted to.

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Quick Notes - Wow! The picture is awesome. I used to think DirecTV’s HD feeds kinda sucked, now I know they completely suck arse. Only the occasional football game comes close to the level of detail. The pay HD feeds (HBO, etc) are absolutely miserable in comparison. The drive comes with the HD version of King Kong and it’s sooo beautiful. We were in the middle of a Sharks game and had only planned on watching a few minutes of it to see the action, but ended up watching almost half the movie.

The Remote is excellent as well. Nicely weighted with big buttons, much better than I expected for an add on. The bonus is that it replaces the miserable-for-DVD-control XBox wireless controller.

The only negative so far is the audio mix (on at least King Kong) is very quiet and not nearly as powerful as the standard-definition counterparts. From what I’ve read on the net, this is a known issue and Microsoft is working on a fix.

From what I’ve read, almost all of the HD-DVD playback process is handled in source code (somewhere there was a post that there’s more lines in the HD-DVD drivers than all of Win95). The great thing about this is that it makes fixing playback issues just a matter of software updates (of course, the flipside is that as Microsoft’s DRM grip tightens, locking down the player even more is also just a patch away).

Overall -two way big thumbs up. For an extra $200, if you’ve got an HD-capable set and a 360, this is a no-brainer. Even better purchase than Gears of War.