Pavillion Gluten Free Christmas Cake

There are still Christmas leftovers on the shelves at the supermarket, and liking Christmas food, I was taken in by this gluten-free cake. Very cheap and sounding healthier than the other brands, I thought I would give it a shot.



The first warning sign was that the cake was attached to the box.



The next was the shape of a "slice."



I think the lesson here is that people do not eat gluten-free because they want to, they eat it because they have to. This cake was a dry crumbly mess, with an unappealing flavour.

Woolworths Stem Ginger Cookies

I gave in to buying some more biscuits, in the hope that they would be good ones, despite all experiences indicating that this was unlikely. This time I bought some stem ginger cookies from FoodTown.



The cookies look pretty unspectacular.



My criteria for a good biscuit is they taste like something someone might have made at home, rather than like some abstraction of what might have been produced in a factory. And they tasted pretty good. The ginger flavour wasn't the strongest, but on the other hand, it wasn't so weak as to make the biscuit a waste of time.

I won't be buying them again though. I imagine I could make a better version of these at home, and the price was a little too high.

Complete MUD-Dev mailing list archives

MUD-Dev started in 1996 and lasted until 2006. I downloaded the early archives that were made available, although they only covered up until 2002. After I uploaded those, someone else made available a more extensive archive of web pages that covered up to 2004.

I've recently realised that my mirror contained empty files, so I needed to regenerate it. However, rather than regenerating it, I decided to get the more extensive archive (1996-2004) and create a new mirror. Davion from MUDBytes mentioned he had the mails covering from 2004 to 2006 in his gmail account. He kindly provided them to me in an mbox archive.

By parsing the web pages, reordering the mbox, combining the two while filtering out duplicate posts and finally making a Linux mailing list archive generator work on Windows I have produced a new mirror. This was not something I wanted to spend time on, but it was one of those projects that I knew would be eating away at me until I got it over and done with. And now that it is completed, here's hoping I never have to do more than browse these archives ever again!