I have just finished a webfolio on Tea, also known as Camellia Sinensis for InDepthInfo. I find it amazing how much I learn every time I create a new folio or webpage. What I find equally amazing is that six months down the road, I sometimes forget completely that I even created a particular webpage. I did one on chopsticks a couple of years ago. I ran across it completely by accident. It was almost orphaned, but not quite, or I probably never would have found it.

Later I realized that it was one of those pages that I created late one night for my old OneManWiki.com (no longer extant). I salvaged the content as it was fairly comprehensive and moved it to InDepthInfo.

In any case, tea has always been a passion with me. I can remember when I was a teenager, my Mother, Brother, and Sisters would sit out on the porch and watch the rain as we sipped a cup of black tea. I seldom do this now, despite the opportunities. It seems I am too busy trying to keep up with commitments, and with the ancillary duty of making a living.

In recent years I have switched over to green tea. I find it sits much better with my delicate constitution. What I found most interesting was the difference between green and black tea is in the processing. Black tea is “fermented” or oxidized for four hours, while green tea is not.

This site also prompted me to swipe a few raspberry leaves from my wife’s favorite raspberry plants. I dried them and then made tea from them. Truthfully, they do taste very much like green tea. If you want to make a cheap decaf green tea, try it out.

You may have noticed the radical change in the way this blog looks. But of course, if you had not been here before, you would never know. So why am I bringing it up then?

It was prompted by a vicious attack on my server. Someone uploaded files to my server, I believe through a very old version of WordPress. I have been putting off upgrading for a muy long time. This is because I generally have about a million other things to do as well, and even though WordPress claims a five minute install, we all know that at least I am not capable of that kind of efficiency.

In any case, I no longer have the old “Kubric” look, but have opted for more modern, if not as clean styling. There are some things I would change about the new “theme” so if you are a regular, you may see a few more changes before I settle back into my usual troglodytic attitude about change.

WJR