Tuesday, June 22, 2004


new barista champ & service restored, if duplicated

norway's tim wendelboe from stockfleths coffee in oslo has emerged as the new world barista champ. followers of this competition will note that for the past few years the title has alternated from a down-under barista to a scandinavian and back.

italians and citizens of the u.s.a. barely rate at this level of competition, which should tell you about the white-hot coffee passion in australasia and in northern europe. three of the top 6 spots were won by scandinavians.

the american entrant was bested by a canadian -- the incredibly talented piccolo of caffé artigiano -- kiwi carl sara, and a lebanese.

let me for the umpteenth time thank you readers, who have patiently followed me through the move and even endured being abruptly re-directed over from bccy's old home at earthlink.net.

it now appears the archives are working -- although for some reason i seem to be publishing duplicate copies! well, at least they are there. if you've been re-directed over here from a google or other search, please feel free to search again onsite for your topic.

the search engine is also now working, altho' for some reason it is still offering earthlink.net results as well as blogspot.com results. do watch for that, and i'll solve this problem too.

this leaves (only!?!) the situation of inter-page links, some of which reference the old site. i'll be fixing these in 2 days as well as uploading the remainder of scaa chief ted lingle's coffee documents and various jpgs from earthlink.

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