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Saturday, July 19, 2008
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Bad food at McDonald's -- Comment()
Yesterday we had a couple of burgers at McDonald's. What a dissappointment! The service was indifferent and bored, not asking any questions about salad dressing or any other detail, and the food was well below average. The grownups had Tandoor Chicken and the children had McChicken. Both were disappointments. The packing was inconvenient (and there were a lot of stuff to go to the trash), and the products were greasy and salty. I had a small supplementary salad, and the default dressing was not good. I'm not a food snob, far from it, and like to have a burger every now and then. My favorite place is Hesburger, the Finnish competitor to McDonalds. Most of the products are tasty, some of them even spicy which I like. As an example, the light curry-paprika salad dressing is excellent. No wonder McDonald's is doing (financially) bad in Finland. I read a comment that the Finnish subsidiary has so far never produced a profit, but this may not be true. In any case, profitability has been a challenge to McDonald's as long as it has been operating in Finland. But if you don't have good products, what can you expect? Next visit to McDonald's? - Perhaps never. In a way McDonald's reminds me of Microsoft products. Mediocre and below-average products combined with heavy logistics and marketing.
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The delights of photo-blogging -- Comment()
I have been photo-blogging at Light Scrape for a few days, and like it. Perhaps there isn't much flexibility in the Flickr-Blogger solutions, but at least it works easily and realiably. But I admit to having looked at other possibilities as well. One interesting solution would be to use the MobileMe service from Apple. There are benefits, such as publishing photo galleries directly from iPhoto. And it seems that the web version allows reorganization of photos very easily, even management of galleries. But this is not really what I want. My point is to publish a photo every few days (or a couple of photos daily if I'm in the mood), not whole galleries. Thus, I'll continue - at least for now - to update my photoblog. And perhaps I'll also test our the photo galleries at MobileMe - but this would be a quite different thing, publishing a collection of photos at once.
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This is the sexy voice of the talking fish -- Comment()
Apparently, the midshipman fish has a sexy voice. If you are wondering, you can listen what it is like. Interesting to know that there are fish who talk to each other.
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