Archive for February, 2010

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23
Feb

Northport Alabama Home for sale

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11
Feb

Best chewy chocolate chip cookies recipe

These cookies are the best.  They stay  chewy for days!  Tell me about your experience with them!

Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
12 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm
1 cup packed brown sugar (light or dark)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

Directions
1. Place oven racks in the upper and lower 1/3′s of the oven.
2. Preheat oven to 325
3. put parchment paper on cookie sheets (this keeps the cookies from sticking)
4. Mix butter and sugars with with a mixer until blended and smooth, add egg, yolk & vanilla.
5. Mix until incorporated.
6. Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
7. Stir in chips and optional nuts.
8. Divide into 18 equal balls, a 2′ cookie scoop works just about perfectly, about 60 gms each.
9. EVENLY space 9 on each cookie sheet.
10. Bake for 12-18 minutes, rotating front to back and top to bottom after 8 minutes. (I typically go for 12 minutes, 8 minutes on the top rack, then rotate and move down to the bottom rack for 4)
11. Cool on sheets to maintain chewy texture.

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10
Feb

Google’s buzzing, does it matter?

Everyone wants to jump on to the social networking bandwagon and be the defacto place that people go to get their updates. In the US the clear winner is facebook in this category, but everything at this point can talk to everything. Enter Google Buzz. Is there room for yet another social networking hub? Does anyone care?

I’m sure some people may pick it up just for the convenience. The big question in my mind is, what did they do differently? The simple truth of the matter is this; if the answer is nothing, then what is the point? Did they reinvent the way everything connects? No. Did they make such a great user interface that people will be flocking to it? No. Did they make it super easy to send updates out through the social networks they talk to? No.

So what have they done? Well, Yahoo! jumped in this space not long ago with their status updates. As far as I can tell it hasn’t been too widely picked up. Well, if Yahoo! did it, I guess Google needs to do it too! That is never a good reason to jump in to a space.

With only a handful of social networking connections available to Buzz right now, I don’t think this service is going to amount to much for a long while. Useful? debatable. Interesting? Definitely. In the long run, you have to ask yourself what is googles angle? I guess in the grand scheme of things only 10% of your ideas ever amount to anything when innovating. You have to throw things out there and see what sticks.

I have read a number of posts on twitter speculating the success of Buzz versus Wave. Wave I think is a clear winner, I think they released it to the general public too soon. Buzz….well…let me be the first to say it….It’s all in the name…..