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		<title>Back to the halcyon days of espresso-dom (updated)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Expanded a bit and added burr photos) 
Hooray, I am back to enjoying great espresso from my own kitchen, having suffered my espresso heartaches and microfoam blues for long enough! The nice folk at Spinelli took my wounded espresso machine (Silvia) in and gave her a new steam pipe, while also installing a new steam [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benandshanthi.wordpress.com&blog=2531389&post=283&subd=benandshanthi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>15 Jan &#8216;09 &#8211; New blog pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just created a couple of mini blogs, ostensibly for work purposes, to keep track of developments in the oil and shipping sectors, for which I am (either partly or totally) responsible now.  Also another one is just a bunch of news reports that I have posted for my own reference and for subsequent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benandshanthi.wordpress.com&blog=2531389&post=38&subd=benandshanthi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>24/06/08 (BR) Gee its been a while&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Closer to 3 months than 2.  That&#8217;s terrible.  I discovered the importance of milk brand the other day.  For sometime I had been using the Masters Hi-Lo brand for my coffees, which seemed to do well.  For some reason (I think I heard someone say something), I switched to Meiji low-fat and it just didn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benandshanthi.wordpress.com&blog=2531389&post=25&subd=benandshanthi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>03/04/08 (BR) Latte (he)art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick one &#8211; poured this heart this morning.  My first decent example of getting something nice on the top of my coffee after nearly 2 months since getting my gear&#8230;.very happy indeed with this!

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		<title>25/02/08 (BR) Been a while</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gee, its been about one month since my last post.  So, things on the espresso front go well.  I have been making mostly milk-based drinks and its all good.  My milk foaming is going great (probably a 90% success rate), but still cannot really do any sort of latte art.  I got one nice heart [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benandshanthi.wordpress.com&blog=2531389&post=20&subd=benandshanthi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>31/01/08 (BR) &#8230; back in business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well now I am 32, not much different from the day before thankfully.  The coffee, on the other hand, is good again!  The other day must&#8217;ve been an anomaly.  Just a quick note today.
So I went down to Highlander Coffee on Wednesday afternoon and had a chat with Phil (and Jeff who happened to be there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benandshanthi.wordpress.com&blog=2531389&post=19&subd=benandshanthi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>29/01/08 (BR) Bad coffee day &#8230; birthday treats (!) &#8230; will I roast??</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I experienced what I hope is the first and last real bad coffee this morning.  Was up working with Shanthi till the wee hours of the morning, so maybe I was just sleep-deprived.  But the cappa/latte this morning was really not great.  Tasted thin and hot in an awful searing sort of burn-the-top-of your-mouth-and-throat kind of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benandshanthi.wordpress.com&blog=2531389&post=18&subd=benandshanthi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>28/01/08 First trip to Highlanders Coffee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Went to Highlanders on Saturday afternoon after a bit of trouble finding the place!  Had my two young boys with me (eldest is nearly 3, youngest is a bit over 1), while my wife was having her hair done.  I have been given the contact details of the owners and advised to have a chat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benandshanthi.wordpress.com&blog=2531389&post=17&subd=benandshanthi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>17/01/08 (BR) Tamper arrives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am kicking myself for not taking more photos.  Maybe its to do with the fact that I am still a new entrant to this whole espresso game, but I find that my mind is very absorbed with the pull process, such that I forget to take a photo or its a big rush to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benandshanthi.wordpress.com&blog=2531389&post=13&subd=benandshanthi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>16/01/08 (BR) Guiness Effect!</title>
		<link>http://benandshanthi.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/160108-bens-espresso-journey-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feeling a bit sick today, with a sore throat and runny nose.  Will be heading off to the doc soon.  So last night, I discovered the &#8220;guiness effect&#8221; with the crema.  I went to CK Tang and bought a few small clear glass shot glasses to better see the brew coming out of the Silvia [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benandshanthi.wordpress.com&blog=2531389&post=10&subd=benandshanthi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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