If you use this site at all, you’ve noticed the VinPass badges that are awarded to you when you rate or log certain wines. This feature has been in beta for a few months now, but is finally officially “launched”. To view all the VinPass badges in play at WineLog, visit the badges page. VinPass is a...

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This is happening to me, with one of my stocks right now: RCRC. A few months ago, I bought about 50 shares of RC2 Corporation (RCRC), a maker of die-cast  and wooden toys, at $20. My wife and I were looking for an investment idea based on the toys and media we’re buying for our 2-year-old son....

A couple months ago I opened a position in Activision Blizzard (ATVI). Blizzard is the Pixar of the gaming industry. All of their games are blockbusters. The most notable title World of Warcraft collects $15/month from their millions and millions of players. I got interested in the stock after...

These folks emailed us and they have some decent finance calculators on their site: Ultimate Calculators I found the loan application one particularly interesting… haven’t seen that one before. Cheers!

Paul Maybray of VinTank gives a nice overview of HR5034. That’s a bill in Congress that would add even more restrictions on shipping wine, which we’ve covered before. Safe to say, it’s a bad bill for wine lovers (but a good bill for distributors with lots of lobbying money, so we’ll see how it...

Here are slides from my talk. I was told a video of the presentation will be up at WordPress.tv sometime soon. I’ll post a link when it is. And I’ll try to get these in SlideShare or something similar. I was having trouble with their site earlier. Business Models for WordPress Plugin and Theme...

I went through this list in my head, and it sounded fairly substantial to me. So I wanted to share this with folks to see that (1) what happens in Congress matters and (2) the Obama administration has done a lot of good things that are beneficial at least to me. The recent Health Care Reform...

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While I struggle to get my hands on a single bottle of the stuff to drink, 1 Wine Dude is actually in Cahors France (for the International Malbec Days festival going on) tasting and pondering on the Cahors marketing push. The dude concludes (emphasis his): > Ignoring the discussion of whether or...