I finally got my first iPod, courtesy of frequent flyer points from a few years back. So until last week I had a cheap radio/CD player in the kitchen with really bad speakers. It really didn’t inspire the best cooking experience.  I was tempted to use my son’s old speakers...

I just finished reading Time Magazine’s top inventions of 2005 – a little late, as it gets passed to me from my father-in-law in a pile a few weeks after he’s finished with them. The magazine’s top nomination was for the cloning of a dog. Woof. At Time.com, there is a...