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Daily Archives: January 10th, 2008

Treat yourself to a break at Blueberry Lake

Ok, while we are still talking about new years resolutions I am wondering if these are amongst yours:
- spend more time with the family
- take more time out to ’smell the roses’
- travel more
- get fit and active and out from behind that desk…or the kitchen sink.
- be kinder to yourself in general
If these are amongst [...]

Umami the Fifth Taste – what is it?

It has always been the popular notion that we humans have four basic ‘tastes’ – sweet, sour, salty and bitter. But in the last ten years a silent ‘trend’ has gradually gathered pace and now it is becoming common knowledge that we have one more, a fifth ‘taste’ and this fifth taste is called Umami. [...]

John Titor – where IS he?

Further to my recent post on the mysterious ‘John Titor’ I wonder just who this individual was and where he is now. I mean, he certainly sparked intense interest and even more intense debate during the ime he spent online. Whilst he was online he originally used the name TimeTravel_0 before using the name John [...]