[](http://www.winelog.net/blogs/jason/2011/06/30/the-wineries-of-master-chefs-joe-bastianich/tritono/)Kim and I are catching up on back episodes of Master Chef. One of the judges, Joe Bastianich, remarks in the opening about his 24 restaurants and 3 Italian wineries. I decided to try to figure out...

I wanted to give an update on Bacchus Selections, which is offering some great wines right now… at crazy low prices. - Chateau Moulinet-Lasserre Pomerol 2003 - [](http://www.winelog.net/images/wines/cGhwZEJRWXNQMTMwNzMyMzA0OA==.jpg) Credit: Bacchus Selections - Region: Pomerol, France -...

[](http://www.winelog.net/badges/46/Friends+of+Rutherford+Hill/)How do you like the sexy badges awarded on the site when you log wines? Did you know that they aren’t just eye candy? Many of the badges come with rewards. Many badges will reward you with free shipping at the winery website or 10-30%...

Here are the slides from my talk: Licensing and Business Models for Premium Plugins (ppt). And FYI, slides from my similar talk at WordCamp Philly (pretty similar, but more stuff on GPL in the beginning) What You Need to Know About the GPL, Download: ppt, pptx

I’m excited to say that I’ve been accepted as a speaker at WordCamp Columbus this coming Saturday. I was a last minute addition… so thanks to the WCC folks for working that out. (Shout out to Angie Meeker: @angiemeeker / blog) My talk is on “Licensing and Business Models for Premium Plugins”, which...

Here is a variation of some code I found on Yoast.com to disable the WP admin bar for non-admins only. function yoast_hide_admin_bar_settings() { ?> <style type="text/css"> .show-admin-bar { display: none; } </style> <?php } function yoast_disable_admin_bar() {...

The WP Page Tree plugin is a nice plugin. It shows a tree view of pages in your WP site… but it’s been broken since about version 3 or so. I’m sure there are other tree view plugins that work well, but I liked that one. And it is actually an easy fix to get it working in WordPress versions 3+. The...

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...

We make these all the time, but Kim finally put together a page with placeholder images for most of the standard banner sizes for ads. Enjoy: [](/images/therealjasoncoleman-com_2165c_120x240.gif) Download [](/images/therealjasoncoleman-com_2165c_120x600.gif) Download...

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....