• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On June 16, 2004

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QTN™: Hahn Special Vintage 2000

Tonight’s beer, because it arrived on my doorstep, is an Australian bottle-conditioned ale, the Hahn Special Vintage 2000. A bottle-aged amber, the four-year-old beer pours dark-red to brown with a small, light weight head. Nose is malty and yeasty; initial taste is slightly sour, almost in a Rodenbach kind of way, but the subsequent taste [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On June 16, 2004

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Bloomsday festschrift

Today is the 100th anniversary of the events in James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses. The novel, set on June 16, 1904, has been celebrated on that date since its 1922 publication with public readings and other celebrations. Today’s celebrations, tinged though they are with the heavy handed legal threats of Joyce’s heirs toward “unauthorized public performances,” [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On June 16, 2004

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XP SP2 RC2 is out

Craig points to Chris Johnson pointing to the new preview release of Windows XP SP2 RC2. (Could there be any more indirection in that sentence?) Go check it out…