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WBC Testing – Usability and Grinders

I am writing sat comfortably in amongst the green coffee down here on Granville Island. I have had enough coffee for a month, and everyone is exhausted and caffeinated.
Despite this, and contrary to what we had planned to do, there has been no official tasting during this WBC evaluation of equipment and personally I [...]

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WBC Machine Testing – Temperature Testing

Vancouver is a lovely city, but it seems it likes to rain. So we’ve all been cooped up inside testing the six machines submitted (I am glad I am not the one paying to run 6 three groups all day!)
People probably want to know how this works and I will try and explain, but [...]

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WBC Machine testing

Later today I get on a plane and head over to Vancouver to take part in the WBC machine testing. As anyone can probably understand I did think long and hard about getting involved, and am of course aware of the inevitable politics that surround something like this.
However the opportunity for me to learn [...]

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The Roadtrip – Vancouver

Well, I confess I have been very quiet of late. It is a mixture of traveling a lot, taking a lot of pictures, having no laptop (until the Macbook I acquired today – I do love a weak dollar!) and generally being a bit of a burnt out mess. Thankfully I have been [...]

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Just to explain

Things are quiet on here for a few reasons.
1 – I am busy having far too much good coffee in this fine city of Vancouver, and enjoying wonderful hospitality from all here.
2 – I have no laptop with me, so the 300 photos or so that I have taken are stuck in memory card limbo.  (I [...]

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The North American Roadtrip

It crossed my mind the other day that I have yet to post on here about our trip from Vancouver to Los Angeles. On Monday Anette, Stephen and I – accompanied by our entourage – fly out to Vancouver. We plan to spend a few days there before heading down to Seattle for [...]

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