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Here’s a cool article about how American craft beer is starting to get a demand overseas, especially in the UK. That’s great news both from a business and cultural perspective. American brewers have made some distinctly American styles over the years and European brewers, who rely more heavily on tradition, are starting to innovate and are looking to the U.S. for inspiration. The article focuses on California breweries but East Coast breweries, being closer to the European market, have potential for exports too. I could see European demand for beers from Dogfish Head and Bell’s, for example.

We run a mixed bag of computers in our house. There’s a few desktop machines, and several notebooks; and they run operating systems that include different flavors of Apple’s OS X, Microsoft Windows and our favorite Linux variant, Ubuntu. They all opera…

Here is a great article from the San Francisco Gate about Porter Creek Winery, one of my favorite Sonoma wineries. I got to visit this winery a few years ago. They have big, corporate wineries all around them with big fancy tasting rooms. Porter Creek’s tasting room was basically their garage. And you know what? Their wine was far better than the stuff I was tasting from the big wineries. We currently have their Zinfandel in the enomatics, which was the NY Times #1 pick in a recent Zinfandel tasting. Look for the Pinot coming soon.

On January 1st I visited the Monument and Kenmore Park. I discovered that the family cemetery next to the Mary Washington Monument had been vandalized . There were several broken or toppled stones. I reported it initially to the Kenmore Foundation a…

Since the last meeting was so poorly attended, the City asked for more feedback from the residents before proceeding to improve the lighting at the Dog Park.To help facilitate this, on January 2nd, I leafletted about 3 dozen homes that I judged to have…

Let me begin with a disclaimer. I do not endorse or approve of software piracy. However, I do believe that the legal owner of a software title should be entitled and able to make an archival copy of the original software media for safe-keeping.After be…

I’ve really enjoyed the use of my IOGear MiniView Micro USB Plus 2-Port KVM Switch for a couple of years now. I’m not certain why IOGear felt the need to give the device such an elaborate name. We’ll blame their marketing folks for that.While…