My lasting memory of that first trip to France in 1952, is of sensuality. Today, one would have to step off an aeroplane on the other side of the world to experience such an impact on the senses. There was a strangely exotic smell which hit me as soon as I set foot on the quay at Calais, later identified as a mixture of strong tobacco, expensive scent and fresh garlic.
As well as producing unbeatable bread, French bakers also service the nation's sweet tooth with a cornucopia of pastries and cakes. One French customs is the visit to the boulangerie-patisserie after Mass on ...missing part... attended the service or not ! - returning home with a baguette in one hand and a pyramid-shaped parcel in the other, continuing a ...missing part... heavy creme patissiere.

This English-language-poem advertising definitely works for me. I just had to buy this cake in Sunkus today. Where did they get this stuff from? Google turned up nothing, so they probably had it tailor-made. Unusually good example...

The cake itself was not especially tasty, and has an unpleasant smell.

I received my first piece of fan mail about PerlPad today. No names to protect the innocent, but I swear I did not make this up:

Hello,
I just wanted to drop you a note about how much PerlPad has helped me in the way I use my mac. I got release 0.1 installed last night, and so far I've already used it while editing my blog, configuring some plists, and taking notes in class. It's been so useful that I wonder how I ever lived without PerlPad before :) And I feel very lucky to have found out about PerlPad -- it's plainly the best service add-on for my mac, ever.
Having PerlPad is like having an embedded Perl interpreter in every application, and I no longer have to go through the tedious process of firing up my editor just for some trivial editing task that cries out for Perl. It makes OS X more UNIXy and cool than even UNIX itself. If even the 0.1 release is already so useful, I can only imagine how good the next release will be.
Kudos to you and everyone else who worked on this project. Projects like yours makes me wish I was a better systems hacker and really happy that I switched to OS X. I wish there's some way for me to say thank you since I'm not a good enough programmer to contribute to the project myself. Do you have a tip jar? I really want to contribute to the beer fund if you guys have one :)

I suppose I should get back to work on the 0.2 release now...