A new toy

Date: 17 May 2010 14:22:06

This is an image of the crustal region of a Woolworths cinnamon bun. So I have been on annual leave for a week now. I had quite a long to-do list. It's somewhat shorter than it was, but there are items I suspect will not be completed (sorry teeth, no dentist for now). But in other news, I bought a digital microscope last week. Sadly I had to return it to the shop because when it said that it worked with Mac OSX 10.5 and up, it didn't mean 10.6 (or, more likely, computers made since Apple switched from Power PC to Intel chips). I told this tale of woe to a friend, who happens to be a primary school teacher. She took me on a late night adventure to her school where we liberated a microscope (one of many there) for me to use while finding my own. So there's quite an obvious difference in the microscopic appearance of Cadbury Dairy Milk and Green & Blacks milk chocolate:

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