With mortgage rates dropping like a brick, it’s becoming a no-brainer for us to refinance our home loan. Even though we just got a 30-year loan 2 years ago at 5.875%, we can get 30-year loans now for around 4.5% or lower. You might be in a similar situation. Rule of Thumb The rule of thumb I hear...

Hello, Wine Bloggers Conference. I hope you are going to enjoy the Rioja wines and look forward to a chance to win some Rioja wine or a trip to the region… with Pia! This is a little hacked together, but I hope it helps you log the wines and keep track of where you are. Logging the wines here and...

So I’m going to do the full Wine Bloggers Conference experience here with a live blogging of some White and Rose Wines. We’re getting an update on the weekend’s schedule. I should be getting started in a moment… First up is Andy Hicks from CalNaturale with an interesting wine in a tetrapack. So...

[](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...