Genre: Opinion/Argumentation

Christchurch City Council's Draft Development Plan Yesterday the Christchurch City Council released its draft plan for the development of Christchurch post the recent earthquakes. If you click on the link above you will get an online flip page style book, or if you prefer something you can download, here's the pdf version of the CCC plan. Let's cut to the chase [...] Grindr -- how to get smiley faces in profile, and other tips I have done a couple of blog posts on Grindr, the iPhone app that has been euphemistically described as Dating for Gays (I say hook ups, but that's just me).  I find it amusing that Israeli publication Haaretz has the headline New iPhone application lets gay Israelis look for love while on the move. Love?  [...] iPad 2 Review I have now been using the iPad 2 for a few weeks now, so time for a full review (well at least in the black and white sense). In case you mised it, here is my iPad 2 Pre-Review (I had played with it then, but didn't own one).   I've followed a similar format. Oh, [...] Paleo Diet -- an update You may recall that in February 2011 I started on a new eating plan - following the Paleo Diet. It kinda went to the pack when the big quake hit Christchurch on Feb 22. I managed to stay more or less grain and sugar free, but ate heaps of processed foods. Some may well ask [...] Firstin.co.nz misleading ERP pricing A while back I blogged about the misleading prices shown on a New Zealand web site 1-day. Well today I saw another classic misleading "ERP" (estimated retail price I can only guess) on a similar site Firstin.co.nz (it's up today only).  Image on the right. This was for a refurbished iMac 24?.  The supposed ERP [...] Golf-R -- review 2 weeks in Here's my updated Golf-R review (now that I own one) I got the car two weeks ago, but waiting until I had 1,500km or so on the clock, under a variety of conditions and roads, so I could comment in some depth. Firstly, let's cut to the chase: This is ONE AWESOME CAR! The gear [...] There is no such thing as a large flat white coffee! Ok, now this might sound trivial, but for anyone that likes good coffee you will know how important anything coffee related is. So, lets get it out and up front: There is NO such thing as a large flat white!  If you make a flat white in a large cup it's just turned into a latte.  So PLEASE stop refering to it as a large flat white It's just as bad as saying "An espresso with milk".  An espresso is BY DEFINITION a black coffee.  If one adds milk it's no longer an espresso.  One can refer to espresso when making another coffee (for example "A cappuccino is made by adding milk and milk froth to an espresso ....". Just to be clear, for those outside of Australiasia (flat whites are mainly found in NZ and Asutralia), here are the receipies for each: It appears there s actually no universally agreed recipe for coffee types, although there are definitely agreed guidelines.  (as an aside, I think the wikpedia article is rather limited on coffee types and needs LOTS of work!) Flat White: 2/3 coffee, 1/3 milk (or there abouts) Latte: 1/3 coffee 2/3 milk (or there abouts) So, when one puts a flat white in a large glass or cup and adds more milk to fill it up, it's just turned into a latte. White and Black Version: A "large flat white" is a latte, so coffee shops should take it off their menu, and people should not order one.  The end. I went to a cafe in aucks and they had a flat white in a cup or bowl and a cafe latte as two seperate things, they had a description of each one and there was something different done with the milk, i think it said the latte was mostly milk Ricky -- well latte would have MORE milk. But in a large bowl that might mean 80% milk for a latte vs 70% for the so called "flat white in a bowl". Flat white should be more coffee than milk, which means anything "large" wont work unless they do 4+ shots.