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There's something very satisfying about a garden salad, both from an aesthetic and taste point of view. Even more satisfying when you've grown it yourself. A few years ago I'd never have thought about making this kind of salad - I wouldn't even have been able to name most of the leaves here. I like the yellow and orange that the marigold petals bring, although in this picture you can really only make out the orange of grated carrots.

India has released a $35 tablet computer that runs on the open-source Linux operating system and comes with an optional solar power upgrade.

For years, our household has been trying to reduce the amount of plastic we use. It's tricky. Most of the time you buy a loaf of bread, or a bag of potatoes it comes in plastic. Look around your house and there's plastic everywhere from the casing on all your tech gadgets and gizmos, the lining of tins of food, to the zipper on your clothing. It's even used in fillings for your cavities.

Try finding toys that aren't made of plastic. You can, but most toys seem to be made of the ubiquitous oil-based material.

So we push it to the back of our mind until our conscience is tweaked again.

Ten things that we'll remember about the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.

One of the things I was told, on applying for media accreditation as videographer at the 2010 Olympics, was that there are strict rules about where you can film. Basically, as an independent journalist, there are very few places that you can film: the Olympics Opening Ceremony? Most definitely not. Live sports events? Sorry, no. Fans partying? That would depend on what area they are in...