From the NYTimes.com: Solving a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside a Cookie

Her prime pieces of evidence are the generations-old small family bakeries making obscure fortune cookie-shaped crackers by hand near a temple outside Kyoto. She has also turned up many references to the cookies in Japanese literature and history, including an 1878 image of a man making them in a bakery – decades before the first reports of American fortune cookies.

This story certainly seems to solve the mystery of the origins of the fortune cookie. 

NYTimes video on the origins of the fortune cookie.

Amidst all the Apple news yesterday, Apple released the iPhone update 1.1.3.

I’m still working out the kinks in this move over to my new blogging system.

I’m still in the process of testing out the capabilities of this blog so I’ve uploaded a picture of my sometimes cat Pewter.  Pewter is always a cat, but sometimes she claims me to be her owner, as she’s doing in this picture.  Whenever Pewter hears me in the kitchen she leaps up and hangs from the iron bars that are on my door.  She’ll just keep hanging there until I open the door with a bowl of food.  Patrolling the neighborhood must take a lot of energy because she can put away a pretty large bowl of food. 

Since, January 9th, my blog has been locked by one of Blogger’s robots for having “spam-like” characteristics.  Without giving any warning, my blog was locked down pending human review.  It’s been nearly a week later and I’m still waiting for some humans to show up and review my blog.

Welcome to my new blog powered by Movable Type. This is the first post on my blog and was created for me automatically when I finished the installation process. But that is ok, because I will soon be creating posts of my own!