Calima Colombian coffee. 114 Devonshire St, Surry Hills. Outdoor seating is the only option here. A table off to the side provides a choice of newspapers to read, but it’s too far out of eyeline on approach, especially with the waiting customers queueing in front of it. The menu is clearly presented, and it’s easy …
Monthly Archives: November 2009
The Frisky Goat, Wynyard
Genovese Coffee. Shop W39, Wynyard Station Arcade, Carrington Street,Sydney. In an arcade sits this little diamond in the rough. The food has a bit of an edge to it, and there is quite a wide range of choice for a relatively small place. There’s even a small amount of seating down one side, though you’ll …
new iPhone Ads – with an ad in the middle.
This article – Apple Joins AT&T/Verizon Spat With New iPhone Ads – talks about Apple explicitly promoting the benefits of the AT&T network to handle voice calls and data at the same time. It’s not particularly noteworthy, except for the really odd experience of watching the video that’s embedded on the page. The video is …
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Cafe Connection, Wynyard
Campos Coffee. 37 York St, Wynyard. From the street frontage you wouldn’t realise that there is quite a lot of seating in the back of this cafe. Prices seem a little high, though its proximity to Wynyard and the banking district has to be a factor here. The coffee-making staff work in a separate bubble …
creating a maze cake with the dragon
When Kel was asked to make a cake for a 21st birthday party with an Alice in Wonderland theme, there was a lot of musing: should a “Mad Hatter” cake be made? Something more abstract? In the end, a maze was suggested. A quick google image search for maze cake showed that there was no …
book: open wallets
book: Open Wallets – using Psychology to open shoppers’ wallets One of the benefits of attending coffee mornings on a regular basis is the variety of people with great ideas that I’ve encountered. One such person is Stephen Saunders, whose shoppologist blog has intrigued me. I don’t think I’d ever completely understood what he’s doing, …
the teenage boy approach to getting work done
[ craig ] Teenage boys have an approach to getting work done that can at best be described as pragmatic: at worst, though, it’s laziness and disorganisation. A few ideas on how the transition can be made to something better (simply staying alive for a few more years is often not enough).
Cherry beans coffee roastery, Pyrmont
Cherry beans coffee. Shop 1/45 Pyrmont St, Pyrmont. Lots of open space in this cafe – large open windows and high ceilings. This is likely to try and dissipate the heat from the roaster when it’s running. The food prices owe a lot to the nearby tourist haunts – the person ahead of me in …
The death of the URL?
We still need URLs now for navigating the web, but are URLs in danger of disappearing altogether?
Dragon Espresso, Chinatown (Sydney)
Pablo and Rusty’s coffee. Shop 18, 401-403 Sussex St, Sydney. Downstairs from Happy Chef, I’ve long wondered what the coffee was like, but had never been here at the right time of day – until now! It’s literally a hole in the wall, with no seating at all, but for the name, I thought I’d …