The Internet’s 25th Birthday Today

Yes, the Internet celebrates its 25th birthday today! TCP/IP had a difficult start. It was first demonstrated between Stanford and UCL in 1975. It took quite a bit of persuasion before it was finally adopted and the ARPANET switched over to it on 1 Jan 1983. If you didn’t yet know… TCP/IP is the basic network protocol that drives the modern Internet as we know it today.

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Delifrance Should Stick to their Croissants

Here’s the actual Seafood Baked Rice as served by Bistro Delifrance. Doesn’t seem like they’re very generous with the sauce eh? You can see much of the rice showing up in the photo. The dish wasn’t particularly nice. Not enough cheese in the sauce which was already very scarce to begin with. Here’s the dish pictured in the menu. Notice how, in here, the dish is so generously topped up with sauce so that you don’t see the rice at…

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