Being perfectly honest, it was a sub-par coffee. My hand slipped while texturing the milk, it ended up overly aerated which affected the flavour and texture as you drink it. Presentation was saved somewhat.
It just goes to show you how important the details are just to make a decent "Cup O' Joe" as the american slang goes according to cop shows. It gives me a lot of appreciation for all those baristas out there making great coffee.
Of course with a machine worth $10000 instead of $800 some things are a little easier and more consistent, but if you don't have the skill, the machine isn't worth much.
I'm going to take a bit of a geek tangent for this blog. Most people working in IT are acutely aware of this, but for those of you who aren't, I would like to stress the importance of backing up your important documents to external media.
A recent horror story for my step-brother which was averted by yours truly: For his privacy I'll just call him SB...anyway SB is currently in uni studying a Bachelor of Science majoring in Chemistry. Needless to say the kind of assignments he works on are not kid's play.
SB does all of his uni work on his 3 year old HP laptop running Windows Vista (shudder) and a week ago, SB's hard drive failed in a big way. He got the BSoD (blue screen of death, yep that's the tekkie term) and from then on his laptop blithely remarked that it couldn't find a bootable device whenever he tried to start it up.
To keep the description simple, most people these days know that the hard drive is where all of your information is stored in a computer, his laptop decided that he didn't have one any more - bad news for SB and all of his uni work that was sitting on that hard drive.
Long story made short, I got the bat-signal, recovered his uni data off his hard drive (just before the thing completely rooted itself..I now can't even access it without really good data recovery software) and he is able to work on it on another computer until we sort out his laptop.
This story's moral: Backup any sensitive documents religiously, it is not just in case of power surges, computers (hard drives in particular) have moving parts (until everyone moves to SSD), they can and will fail eventually.
Also, hard drives have a 'file system' in which they track where every bit of data is stored physically on the disk; if you kill power to your laptop without shutting down properly (sometimes this is inevitable) it is possible that the hard drive's file system can become corrupt - think of it as a manila folder gone missing amongst 10000 other manila folders inside a filing cabinet.
Anyway, preaching done, I'm off to enjoy my Saturday.
Cheers,
Brandon.
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