I put black pepper on just about everthing. Pasta, soup, salad, pizza -- you name it. I love the stuff. Especially that of the freshly ground variety, expertly cracked by one of my prized possessions -- a cherry mill by drum stick manufacturer Vic Firth. So you could also say that I like black pepper.

I wonder though, if there are adverse effects to ingesting large quantities of the spice. Plenty of studies have been done I'm sure -- and perhaps I don't want to know their outcomes. I'm sure it can't be any worse than a few cups of coffee a day (of which I drink none).

Other Notes

• It's merely April and I've already had the worst sunburn of recent memory.
• Had the pleasure of meeting up with Ethan and the visitng Dunstan this past weekend where we were greeted by a large fish on the sidewalk of a Boston pub.
• For a recent project, I used a modified version of Brad Choate's wonderful tip for Doing your whole site with MT. After seeing how easy it is, I'm going to start using this method more often (using the Category field to automatically create folders and files). Each entry becomes an editable web page, with all the available fields to plug into a single template. I should write this up someday. Too lazy right now.
• The new version of iTunes is worth checking out.
• Shaun Inman's Inman Flash Replacement technique (IFR) is fascinating and promising. And further adds more reason for me to get a handle on Flash.
• Keith sparked a very informative thread over at Asterisk* regarding the pros and cons to using XHTML Strict vs. Transitional
• I'm happy to hear that The Sydney Morning Herald redesigned using web standards. Congrats to Peter Ottery and team.
• And lastly, I thoroughly enjoyed Hellboy, going into it knowing really nothing of the comic. Ron Perlman was fantastic (and surprisingly funny -- although maybe the character has a dry wit in the comic book as well).