One of the joys of my job is dealing with some of the different businesses in town. Some are small (like new doctors offices), and some are fairly huge (like some wineries). But it’s the unusual ones that really are nice. Case in point is Rob Struven and his Tattoo parlor Garage [...]
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[...] The lunacy of San Francisco politics can take several forms and town hall meetings are sure to attract some of San Francisco’s craziest nut jobs. While I was surprised not to see San Francisco’s representative from the 12 galaxies, Frank Chu, attend the meeting, I did get to see Chris Sacca from Google face [...]
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Official Google Blog: Corporate solar is coming
Epic games of beach volleyball, urban indoor workspaces infused with natural light, enthusiasm for the outdoors – at Google, we’ve always taken advantage of the sun. And now we’re ready to use the sun yet another way: to create clean electricity.
Soon we plan to begin installation of 1.6 megawatts [...]
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SFGate: Food & Dining: Bargain Bites
It’s been 10 years of bargain eating, and man, are we full — of good tips, that is.
When the Chronicle Food and Wine staff published the first Bargain Bites a decade ago, we scoured the Bay Area, looking for great restaurants with entrees costing $10 or less. Now, 10 years [...]
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Downtown’s Popularity Raises Demand on Parking
With a growing list of Zagat-rated restaurants (15), tasting rooms and performing arts venues, it’s no surprise that more people want to spend more time in downtown Napa. The upside of this renaissance is easy to see - more business opportunities, jobs, prospects for increased tax revenues to fund City [...]
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These are a number of stories related to the JonBenet Murder and his relation to Napa. I’m glad to say his time here was short, before bing picked up by Sherrifs. I’m just hope that nothing comes out with the fact he did work here for 4 months. I’m curious what sex related [...]
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I went to the local Napa Town & Country Fair a lot this last weekend, at least more then normal. I am not into the animals that the Future Farmers of America raise and then show/sell at the fair. But the concerts this year was definately better then previous years. Smashmouth rocked [...]
It’s amazing that it took the local fair for me to go see Smash Mouth in concert. Not really a second string band, I was shocked to find that the local fair actually had a good band.
The Napa Valley Town and Country fair started yesterday, and I went for the first time tonight because [...]
Official Google Blog: Saved locations on Google Maps
One of the most common requests we’ve received is for the ability to store a list of personal addresses on Google Maps — and now you can. To get started, click on the “Saved Locations” link in the upper right corner of the site and sign in to [...]
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Wine-tasting robot to spot fraudulent bottles
A robotic wine taster, capable of distinguishing between 30 different varieties or blends of grape, has been developed by engineers in Japan.
The idea is to automate wine analysis so that retailers and customs officials can easily check that a wine is indeed what its label declares.
The wine-bot was developed by [...]
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