Do you remember in the film “There’s Something About Mary” the scene, where Ted and Mary are eating meat out of a cone, and agree that you don’t get enough meat in cones?
Well, I’ve discovered something else that comes as a cone – pizza!
I think the best way to imagine it, is like a calzone that’s open at one end. I read about them here. The idea seems simple enough – the pizza is not flat, but shaped like a cone, with the filling inside. You can then hold it in one hand, and eat it outside, eg. whilst walking.
In my opinion, this is a really great idea and I look forward to someone in Germany taking on the idea so that I can try it!
Pizza cones
February 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment
(Un)-employment on Lanzarote
February 26, 2008 By 1 Comment
I have a dream – a dream that one day I will be able to run my business from just one laptop, and that with that laptop I will be able to move to Lanzarote.
From there, I would sit on a balcony over looking the old harbour in Puerto del Carmen and provide remote IT support or web-design services using that very laptop.
All that before taking a dip on the pool.
OK, so that dream is still some way away, and perhaps even more so after I read that the Canary Islands have almost 150,000 unemployed.
It’s not the sort of thing that you see or even think about as a tourist. In the bustle of the local shops and restaurants, you get the impression that everyone on the island has a job to do, sometimes even two.
On the other hand, I guess that the number of jobs on the island is limited and so moving for your dream job can mean moving away from the island and thus from your home. Can you imagine leaving such a beautiful part of the World in search for work?
I for one, could not. Perhaps I should remain a tourist and do my bit to reduce that unemployment figure!
London to introduce variable Congestion Charge
February 26, 2008 By 2 Comments
After writing about the new “low-emission” zone in London, I was fascinated to read about a scheme for normal cars to make the Congestion Charge variable according to the car’s emissions.
The idea is, that the current charge of 8GBP could rise up to as much as 25GBP for vehicles that have high emission rates, but on the other hand the charge could be reduced down to nothing for low-emission cars.
I’m note sure that everyone will approve, but I’ll be keeping an eye on the new tariffs to see whether bio-ethanol cars belong to the “free” category!
