Starbucks wants Nespresso's business…
But the star of the meeting was the Verismo machine, which was put on display for the first time since its introduction at the beginning of this month. Mr Schultz did not hide his ambition to eat into the $3.8 billion of Nespresso sales last year by delivering the full “Starbucks espresso experience” in the home. It will initially be on sale in America, but a spokesman confirmed that the UK would be among the first overseas markets to get the machines.
NIce to see more people fighting for the upscale home coffee market. Pity their devices don't let you choose your coffee supplier, though. That's why I won't be buying either.
Full of Blood and Chrome, signifying…?
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Really looking forward to this - and hoping it doesn't disappoint. I loved the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, and even enjoyed the slow, thoughtful and (inevitably) cancelled Caprica.
Fingers crossed…
Gardens in the sky
via remodelista.com
Back in my Estates Gazette days, I used to write about green roofs a fair amount. I still find then unutterably inspiring, a hidden pocket of natural loveliness embedded into an urban landscape.
If only more city dwellers valued these things, maybe I wouldn't have been so keen to leave London.
I was born under a wandering' mind
A study has found that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more “working memory”, giving them the ability to hold a lot of information in their heads and manipulate it mentally.
I'm not distracted, I'm making connections… ;-)
Aperture hates Flip
This window popped up when I installed the latest update to Aperture 3:
And sure enought, the linked support document tells you to purge that 3ivx codec from your system. Where did it come from? FlipShare.
And so the component is gone, and Aperture is noticably more responsive. And the legacy of that lovely little Flip cam fades a little more into the past…
