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Today is the national holiday, “17 mai”, here in Norway. It is a big occasion for many norwegians. People go out in the streets dressed nice and have all their familiy with them. In downtown Oslo there are people everywhere carring flags and cheering. Many do however not participate and chooses to do alternative things [...]

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Mark Prince talks about different filter basket designs in his latest cafetalk article.

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(also posted on alt.coffee)
It has been two months since I got my Euro2000. The switch from Siliva to a prosumer thoroughbred like E2K came a bit earlier than planned. Like any other coffeegeek I knew the moment would come when I had to do the upgrade, but I didn’t think it would happen so soon. [...]

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Check out the “picture and audio story” story from msnbc about the coffee crisis. Excellent stuff. Also, check out the one about David Schomer.

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Ah, gotta love those ristretti….mmm

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My latte art has been variable for some time and it has sort of been bugging me. I have however tried to accept the fact that consistency and mastery comes through training, and since I’m only making a cuple of cappas a day, it will take some time .
Normally I will use a 3dl [...]

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The CBS coverage of the WBC is online! You can see it here : http://tinyurl.com/bb1d. Hey Billy, you’re on the show. Cool to be able to put a face to your name.

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I did some charity work yesterday. A small group of youths are starting up a youth cafe in a suburb outside of Oslo. They needed someone to teach them basic barista skills. I love to make coffee in any circumstance and to teach, so I volunteered. I really looked forward to it and prepared well. [...]

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I’ve just read the online version of Manfred von Richthofen’s book “Der Rote Kampfflieger“. Interesting stuff.

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Bad weather today, and feeling a litte bored and depressed I decided to go the announced kobukai martial arts exhibition. Kobukai is a small martial arts club here in Oslo that specializes in japanese martial arts, especially the study of japanese sword techniques and use of other traditional weaponery. The particular school they teach is [...]

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