Can't cook, won't cook
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Life & style: Millions of us assemble most of our meals from shop-bought dishes. How did we grow too lazy for real cooking, asks Zoe Williams.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Mar. 6--TRACY -- Some residents live in homes heated by ovens. Others sleep on rear patios fashioned into makeshift apartments. They pay rent to stay there.
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Reinhold Weber has put together a list of signs (40 in all on his "programming list of shame") that you're a lousy PHP programmer. Here's a sampling:   don't see the need and/or benefits of a good programming IDE like Zend Studio or Eclipse PDT have never used some form of version control like Subclipse don't use a consistent methodology don't use test-driven development don't return content but echo or print it from your functions or classes return HTML, not data, strings, or objects. don't allow intelligent error handling you think reusable software equals/requires your code to be OOP   Now granted, some of them are a bit more high level than others, but if you're not headed towards a lot of these, you might change paths, hop out of that comfort zone and branch out into the community and the language a little bit more.
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Concerned about cooking that Thanksgiving turkey? Just keep in mind that if you don't slice the bird with a chain saw, stomp on it to make it fit in a pan or lose it in a snowdrift, you'll already be doing better than some other Americans.
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Are you a wannabe celebrity chef, the most inventive cook on the block? And, most important, do your culinary skills go way beyond the ability to boil water?
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By Carilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / Scripps Howard News Service. Natalia Rudiak of Carrick could not figure out why her trusted laptop was acting sluggish and sometimes unresponsive.
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Hey, somebody in Times Square put my Pakistani chicken meat patty on a miniature bagel. And, if that's a turnoff, then try it on a hot-dog bun. Mmmm, not bad for a buck, buck-fifty.
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After a weekend of watching direct-to-DVD horror movies, I was pale, clammy and unable to contemplate food that was even medium rare.
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Last week, Julia Child died two days before her 92nd birthday. No single recipe of hers can sum up everything she meant to American cooking.
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NEW YORK  - Despite repeated  recommendations to cook on the back burners of the stove and to  turn pot handles toward the back, many parents still fail to  recognize their child's potential risk for burns and scalds,  new study findings suggest.
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In space, no-one will let you heat... An overwhelming majority of EU MPs this week voted for a ban on patio heaters, calling on the European Commission to set a timetable for the withdrawal from the market of these and other "very energy-inefficient items of equipment." But despite what you might read in the popular prints, there are just a few obstacles standing in the way of the immediate death of these planet-wrecking engines of doom.â¦
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On Christmas day, after the potlatch subsided, I headed out for a run. When I flicked on my MP3 player, however, I heard ... nothing. Glancing down at the display of my Creative Nomad MuVo TX I saw an unwelcome message: "File system error." Grrr.
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This PC support pilot fish working at an electronics factory gets a call from a user in the chemical treatment area whose 4-month-old PC isn't working. And it takes no time for fish to figure out why.
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As you may recall from my last entry, I exchanged my cable box from a Scientific Atlanta 8000HD to a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD.  The latter, new box continues to output a signal from the cable connection even if I have it in HDTV mode.  It probably also continues to output AVI and S-Video.  This finally opened up a way for me to use my cable box with a MythTV box.   Thanks to a serious (and mysterious) spinal injury (I say mysterious because I haven't figured out how I did the damage), I can only work on the project for a half hour at a time, at most.  I have discovered some interesting things in those short segments.
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A man dies in a house fire which is believed to have been caused by cooking being left unattended.
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Cures for an update gone bad, a trashed Registry, and a shutdown failure.
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If the recent E. coli outbreak in spinach has put a crimp in what you eat, rest easy: Food-borne illnesses have declined 30 percent overall since 1998, according to the latest government statistics. In today's Lean Plate Club column LINK, learn how you can reduce your risks even more of......