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The first time I went to Nikko I remember thinking it was not as good as many people had told me it was. Fortunately I've been back several times since and I've come to realize that this is one of the better Japanese places in Cologne. It's in a small shopping arcade, a bit out of the centre of town, but nevertheless seems to be consistently busy. Luckily for me it is close to where I go for

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The Washington post is having a poll for best webcomic, which is not a new idea of course, but is still a nice bit of fun. Amazingly enough Sluggy Freelance is not amongst the nominations, despite being the quintessential webcomic, I would have thought.  It's been going since August 1997, with a new comic almost every day, including many full colour multi-panel contributions (random link)

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Must give a mention to Culux (Curry Deluxe), on Rudolfplatz. Currywurst is practically a German national dish, but the relationship to what any english person knows as "curry", i.e. indian food, is slight. It's simply a sausage with a basic, spicy, ketchup-like sauce made from curry powder. Usually served as a take-away snack on a small paper plate, maybe with chips (pommes), to be eaten on the

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[inspired by Monika] 1. Put your iPod or i tunes library, or MP3 player etc... on shuffle. 2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. (I picked random questions from someone else's site) 3. You must write that song name down no matter how silly it sounds.  (The silliness is rather the point, however, see My Life Story below) IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
 The

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Easting out on holiday in Rome was very enjoyable, if highly calorific.  Some of these places I can really recommend. Tuesday - The guy at the hotel recommended some nearby places but I didn't like the look of them. One was a huge, soulless, empty space and another looked trendy and corporate (a bit like and Italian all-bar-one).  I finally spotted a place called Papa Baccus - pricey, but

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I have just found what I consider to be the holy grail of an Englishman living in Europe... a decent curry.  I've been looking for a good Indian meal in Köln for a long time and I have been persistently disappointed by meals with little or no fresh ingredients, fierce one-dimensional spicing and too much reliance on tomato puree and MSG. Finally, after giving up hope really, I tried the

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Sushiou has been one of my favourite eating planes in the last few months. It's a sushi bar with one of those conveyor belts that goes round and round (回転寿司 kaiten-sushi). The fish is fresh and tasty and the sushi is prepared out in front of the customers.  If what you fancy is not on the belt, you just need ask for it. The range available is excellent, in my opinion.  There's also some sashimi

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On my computer desk I have a fair selection of different devices:- multiple computers, disk drives, router, USB hubs and so on. Far too many of these things have the power switch on the back. This means whenever I have to switch anything on or off, I have to reach round there, where I can't see and where all the cables are (including the power cable from which I could theoretically get a nasty

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I work for an agency, placed at another company as an IT consultant. The firm to which I am outsourced is reorganising the application development team, to split it into separate teams for support and development. We've been through this before about 5 or 6 years ago, and then they changed it all back again, and now we are having another go at it. These things go in cycles, everyone knows that.

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I have been eating mostly Japanese food recently, so its been a while since I visited many of the other haunts I used to go to regularly. I'm pleased to find that La Montanara In is just as good as ever. I had a late lunch /early dinner of linguine with clams and mussels. and it was excellent. (I had intended to have Pizza Palermo, with spicy sausage, spinach and parmesan, which is an old

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Summer Solstice, the longest day of summer, so naturally it is raining and overcast. Still trying to get the Overseas club site into some kind of order, but I think we are making progress.

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Working on the Overseas club website.  This is a blog entry so that there is something to show on the page.

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