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Friday Feb 29, 2008

What are you craving?

Is the question asked by new culinary website Cookthink. It landed in my inbox earlier this week and I can't stop telling people about it. One of the most common questions that turns up in TheSite.org's food forum is "Anyone got recipe ideas?" and this website is a great place to get help with finding some. Not only can you find recipes containing foods you're craving, but you can also find meals to use up those old ingredients you're not sure what to do with.

It might even help you identify your veg.

 

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Thursday Feb 07, 2008

Scary holidays

Scary holidays? We've all had at least one of them. If being between up by a bunch of 13 year-old Spanish boys (OK maybe that's a bit dramatic – being 'groped' and slapped on the ass), cracking my elbow and finding out my grannie had passed away while I was on a two-week package holiday with my ex staying in a hotel full of families and bawling kids when I was 21 wasn't scary enough, then I'd love to hear your stories! Still there's very different kinds of 'scary' and as our latest video vox pops reveal, from nearly being buried alive on a mountain to having to sleep in a cockroach-infested hotel room, that's far scarier than my holiday. Mine was probably more 'disaster' than scary!

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Tuesday Feb 05, 2008

Mobile history

A recent thread in the Volunteering and Activism forum on our discussion boards about recycling old mobile phones for charity reminded me of how many I’ve owned since my first Motorola model in the year 2000. It’s actually a scary number and unfortunately due to loss, theft and breakage I haven’t been able to recycle every mobile I’ve had over eight years.

All this has got me thinking. If you’re a serial mobile owner like me, you’re bound to feel a sense of nostalgia when you think back to your old phones and what you were doing with your life when you owned them. This is 21^st Century nostalgia for sure. A mobile phone history of just eight years already spans enormous technological changes, but each phone has a human story too. My first phone was a birthday present from my parents and I remember being embarrassed because it was already an outdated Motorola brick compared to my college friend’s new Vodafone models. My third phone was a Nokia 3210 brought as a Christmas present from my first serious boyfriend. I remember him telling me that phones weren’t going to get much better than that model!

Mobile phone history is already something that’s been picked up on in the Net & Tech forum on TheSite.org and it’s really interesting to see which brands and models have fared better than others. I bet you can see a few of your own in there.

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