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How to make homemade wine

Cathy — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:57:33 +0000

A friend’s father makes the most amazing fruit wines and since trying them out, it’s been a “someday” goal to be able to do the same.

Perusing the Viddler blog, they featured a home winemaking show called TintoTV started by Nico Sanchez and his wife. Here’s an episode on making strawberry wine! YUMMY! The accompanying blog post has some notes if you are tempted…

Apparently the were in the Aug/Sep 07 issue of WineMaker Magazine and they have also set up a Viddler winemakers group for fellow homemade wine devotees.

One day I will get round to making mead as well!

Learn how to light

Cathy — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:24:12 +0000

If you are at all into photography (or film for that matter), you’ll know how complex good lighting can be. I personally take the lazy approach and just use natural light, but Strobist.com attempts to make it easier. Start off with the Lighting 101.

Berkeley Free Online Lectures Courtesy of Google

Cathy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:13:56 +0000

The University of California, Berkeley has made a number of lectures freely available online through a partnership with Google: UC Berkeley on Google Video A number of courses are available, but perhaps more interesting are videos from guest lecturers in Global and Public Affairs:
Graduate School of Journalism Presents Distinguished guests discuss their role in global affairs and the media.
Goldman School of Public Policy Presents Prominent speakers discuss vital policy issues.

American Presidents on Wikipedia

Cathy — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:15:33 +0000

Andrew has a new favourite past time, checking out the signatures of American Presidents on Wikipedia. It’s great! I think his favourite is Lyndon Johnston’s which “looks like Armenian”.

Free Yale Internet Courses

Cathy — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:34:45 +0000

Yale to Make Select Courses Available on the Internet

Yale University is producing digital videos of selected undergraduate courses that it will make available for free on the Internet through a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation… The project will create multidimensional packages—including full transcripts in several languages, syllabi, and other course materials—for seven courses and design a web interface for these materials, to be launched in the fall of 2007. If the venture proves successful, Yale hopes to significantly expand its online offerings over the next few years. The new venture joins a growing number of university-based initiatives that use the Internet to make educational materials widely available.

The three courses being taped this winter are Introduction to the Old Testament, Fundamentals of Physics and Introduction to Political Philosophy. Detailed information on the Yale project and others supported by Hewlett’s Open Educational Resources Initiative is on the Foundation’s web site including an initiative to provide free educational resources from the UK’s Open University.