I Am Hipp (a red wine blend) 2010-03-20
This batch is from a wine kit: Winexpert Selection Original Series: Luna Rossa. A 4 gallon kit that produces 6 gallons of wine. It was about $118.
HTML Character Chart Update: Polish Alphabet
While working on an upcoming new website for Gramps (Free Open Source Genealogical Research tool that I contribute to) I am learning the challenges of developing a multilingual international website. In working with some translations I discovered that my character chart did not include characters from the Polish alphabet! Needless to say, my character chart [...]
Gooseberry Port-Style Wine
Produces about 3.5 gallons of port-style wine at 15.7% alcohol.
Pinot Noir 2010-02-12
This batch is from a wine kit: Winexpert Selection Original Series: Pinot Noir. A 4 gallon kit that produces 6 gallons of wine. It was about $118.
Australian Shiraz 2009-12-12
This batch was made from a kit: Winexpert Vintner’s Reserve World Vineyard Collection: Australian Shiraz. It is a 2.6 gallon kit that produces 6 gallons of wine. It cost about $75.
Cabernet Sauvignon 2009-10-23
This wine is created from a kit: Winexpert Vintner’s Reserve: Cabernet Sauvignon. It is a 2 gallon juice concentrate kit that produces a 6 gallon batch of wine. The kit was about $60.
Printing Marks in Inkscape
Not sure when this feature was added, but I’m running the Inkscape 0.47 preview and discovered that the default install now includes a “Printing Marks” feature. You can access it from the main menu: Extensions > Render > Printing Marks The small options window that pops up allows you to adjust a variety of settings [...]
On the Design of Laptops (and my new Lenovo G530 running Ubuntu Linux)
Over the last few months I’ve been shopping for a new/refurbished laptop. I had my mind set on a refurbished Thinkpad R61 or R500, but those were ranging between $600 and $700. At that price I was going to have to wait a while until I had more money set aside. In the meantime I [...]
Ubuntu 9.04: Fix OpenClipArt Gallery for OpenOffice.org
If you don’t know, Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org make it very easy to install the artwork from OpenClipArt.org as a built-in gallery within OpenOffice. It’s slick: while in OpenOffice Writer go to TOOLS > GALLERY and a little panel shows up, displaying categorized clipart, ready to be dropped into your document. Very cool. Unfortunately, after Ubuntu [...]
Whole Foods Craziness
There’s been some over-politicizing in the news about something that John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods said in an editorial about health care for the Wall Street Journal. Here’s an article from the BBC about customers boycotting at Whole Foods stores: BBC: Customers call for Whole Foods boycott After reading that story I was [...]