Powerade Challenge

It's been really, really hot this year, so whilst on my traditional fruitless search through the shops for good Christmas presents, I've been buying more drinks than usual.

A few days ago I wanted a drink and all there was to choose from was some juice selling for about $375 per fancy glass bottle, or Powerade.

After a lot of soul searching I opted for the Powerade. As I took my first swallow, an idea for a research project leaped into my mind. I resolved to seek an answer to the question: is there any flavour of Powerade that doesn't taste like a sweaty armpit?

So far I've ruled out blue, yellow, and red. I'm not sure how many more "flavours" there are.. hopefully not many.

Indulging in Typography

I'd embarassed to admit that I'm quite excited about the six new Microsoft fonts.

I use Trebuchet a lot because it's clean and friendly; it hard to tell with such a small sample, but the new font Calibri might be able to replace Trebuchet as my favourite.

I have always had a soft spot for Georgia too, especially in bold, but it's a bit too spotchy for my liking, and the loony hanging numerals always bugged me. Perhaps Cambria can do what Georgia doesn't quite achieve.

Ok, I feel better for having indulged. If you follow the link above be sure to scroll down to the 6th comment, about the way the font descriptions are written:

The font descriptions remind me of some wine reviews... "it has an open, friendly design with just a hint of broccoli. The T's are assertive, while the I's are impetuous.."

Funny.

MiniPutt

A brief break from the insanity of XSLT this afternoon has allowed me to recover my position as the Emperor of MiniPutt.

My MiniPutt minions:

• Simon
• Tim