How To Fill A Pepper Ball

Of the many subjects I have written about on patrickWeb, the one thing that continues to elicit the most feedback is The Pepper Ball. I first wrote about it in 1996 in the gadgets section of patrickWeb. For some unknown reason, it seems I have become the technical support department to the world's pepper ball users! I have gotten emails asking where to buy a Pepper Ball,  how to repair one with broken handles, but mostly asking if I could explain how to refill the pepper supply. Yesterday I got an email from a frustrated man in Virginia Beach, Virginia who wrote, "How do you (or can you) refill the damned thing?"

I am hoping that the following explanation will make a match for people doing web searches looking for the answer. If you look at the Pepper Ball picture carefully, you will see a rectangular shaped area on the left side. It is about 3/4" wide and 1 1/2" long. By pressing on this "door" toward the bottom of the Pepper Ball, it will slide open. I use a small funnel to fill it so I don't have to chase peppercorns around the kitchen floor.

Gadgets May 24, 2003 03:15 PM

Newsgator

Thanks to Buzz Bruggerman at Activewords for telling me about Newsgator. More on this later. It is a very nice blog reader that places news feeds right into Outlook. What is interesting is that you can also use Newsgator to make postings to your weblog.

Blogging May 24, 2003 01:34 PM