Another reason to ditch Windows…
After a year and a half of fighting Vista on my Toshiba A135-S2276 I gave up. Quite simply I got sick of the problems, errors, lock ups, “security” pop-ups and general sluggishness. So to sort of future proof me, also since I figured it was easier, I bought a new hard [...]
Last month, our fair city became the 44th (give or take) to be included in one of Google’s more ingenious offerings – the Street View.
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I was reading my paper at lunch like I normally do and I ran across that article. The intersting part about it, was about a month ago I noticed they had [...]
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You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa
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Mind I’m sure there are a few dry countries that will argue this comment. But it’s [...]
I blog occasionally at A little bit of vino… rating random bottles of wine I’ve been given or can afford to buy. And so it was with interest I ran across a post in which a number of $12 wines where reviewed. Below is an excerpt… I strongly suggest you read the [...]
A MAKE Magazine contributor Colin Berry did a radio piece last week about how a school in Santa Rosa, CA is training dogs to identify vineyard insect pests by scenting their sex pheremones.
A very different kind of environmental damage is found each year in California Wine Country. The damage doesn’t come [...]
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[...] The Coonawarra was one of my first good bottles of Australian wine. And I wanted us to do it by the book. Well, since I have yet to take a class, or really read a book about wine drinking I first smelled the cork. I usually can tell a lot about the wine from [...]
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Well I’ve been told many times that I should diversify and start or also submit to another blog. Well I finally took that advice and and started a blog concerning nothing more then the different wines I drink. The name of the blog Whino.info should be appropriate don’t you think?
Well in my wandering I ran [...]
I love Stumbleupon for the wide variety of sites that I’m led too. But also because those same people suggesting a wide variety of sites, sometimes use Stumbleupon to create photo galleries, area for poems, and every once in a while history narratives. Below is on of these write ups, the English is [...]
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Forbes did a wonderful write up about a few of the family owned Napa vintners. Focusing on the ones you can easily buy wine from, and are still small. There a re a number of names missing from the list but these overviews give you a good idea on the makeup of some [...]
An all-in-one plastic wine bottle and cup has been produced by Australia’s Hardy Wine Company, the country’s largest wine producer.
The “Shuttle” bottle, which holds one glass of wine, has a detachable plastic container at the top.
“It’s portable (and) it means you only need to buy one product to enjoy a glass of wine,” Miriam Leenders, [...]
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