I did a 7 course meal last week for some of my wife's colleagues. Unfortunately I'm missing two photos - chilled avocado soup which I served with the crab and lemon shortbread with fresh whipped cream and berries.

Cumin Dusted Crab Fritters



Seared Scallop, Bacon Ragu, Sweet Corn Puree



Salmon Stuffed with Creamed Leeks, Dashi



Soba and Clams, Sake, Garlic Butter, Ume



Pan Seared Duck, Pancetta, Poached Asian Pear, Sauvignon Blanc Reduction



Ribeye, Rosemary Butter, Jack Daniels Reduction
Filet Mignon, Dijon Cream Sauce, Cremini Mushrooms

Le World Match Racing Tour est dominé par l’anglais Ian Williams mais Sébastien Col et Mathieu Richard sont prêts à lui reprendre sa couronne mondiale à seulement deux épreuves de la fin de la saison. Avec la King Edward VII Gold Cup qui débute chaque point est crucial alors que chacun des 24 prétendants à la victoire viendra mettre son grain de sable dans la course au titre. Détenteur du Trophée et n°1 mondial de la discipline, Mathieu Richard est ici l’homme à battre. Anne Hinton, de SailRaceWin, vient nous offrir le regard d’un kiwi sur notre froggie !

Une nouvelle gamme de produits WIFI vient d'être annoncée par le fabricant TRENDnet. Conforme avec la future norme IEEE 802.11n, la gamme N Essential supportant un débit de 300Mbps se compose d’un...

Le projet Captain America vient de dévoiler son scénario ! Les fans se demandant depuis de nombreux mois à quelle sauce le permier des Vengeurs allait être mis sur grand écran vont donc enfin a[...]

It's evident by now that the credit crisis will cast a pall over the ad sector, but how bad will it get? One indicator of the future health of the space is the abundance of venture capital. Are any marketing technology start-ups still boasting new funding rounds?

Well, there's the one anyway.

BlackArrow said today it has scored a $20 million B round investment to continue development of its on-demand ad management system for TV and other platforms. Its new investors are the same as the old ones: Cisco, Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners.

The BlackArrow system is designed to dynamically serve ads into live and time shifted TV content. It's compatible with a variety of ad types, sales models, and distribution methods, or so the company claims. Here's what we wrote about the company last year:

"What Black Arrow provides could be used by all the venues that serve up advertising," said Gerry Kaufhold, an analyst with In-Stat who was briefed on the technology. With its contextual, time of day and demographic targeting capabilities, he said Black Arrow's system can "make a real time decision about which group of ads fits [and] which actual ad gets served," which is of course the longstanding secret sauce of online ad serving.

Of course it's too early to say whether the big money will gravitate to cross-platform plays like BlackArrow's and away from pure Web start-ups, but it's interesting to see multiplatform video win a vote of confidence in such a bleak season.

One of the most popular events of the annual New Yorker Festival is Calvin Trillin's food-oriented walking tour of SoHo, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, and Little Italy. According to the New York Times, one of the tour's favorite destinations is Banh Mi Saigon Bakery, also one of my top lunch destinations.

Standing outside, dipping his roll into peanut sauce, he said he liked to eat standing up. "If I couldn't eat in a four-star restaurant again, it would mean nothing to me," he said. "But if someone said I couldn't eat any more cilantro, I would be very upset."

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Linux Magazine: "Although the Productivity Sauce blog is all about, well, productivity, I'm willing to make an exception and mention the newly released Puppy Linux 4.1. I've been using this lightweight Linux distro on my ASUS Eee PC 701 for quite some time, and it helped me to be productive wherever I went."

Steve Ballmer a récemment confirmé son intention de décliner la partie logicielle du Zune à toutes les sauces. En d'autres termes, celui-ci devrait faire son apparition d'une manière ...

On le sait, LittleBigPlanet va permettre aux esprits créatifs de donner libre cours à leur imagination débordante. Les multiples vidéos postées ici-bas le montrent clairement. Pourtant, selon le magazine EGM, différentes sociétés pourraient fournir d'entrée, des "kits" spéciaux, permettant à tout un chacun de créer des environnements et des situations à la sauce de la société en question. Le…