So I decided to do a quick search on google to find out how the results are panning out for todays primaries in North Carolina and Indiana.

My search returned the following result.

I was behind a proxy for Canada.. but.. does this mean Canadians aren’t allow to look at the news?

Yesterday, I replaced the hard drive in one of my laptops. Everything was under warranty, so no problems there. Now that I have a brand spanking new hard-drive I figured I would take advantage of its innocence, and partition off a section for the anticipated release of Ubuntu 8.04 … aka Hardy Heron.

What a great call. Of course, I went ahead and installed the OEM Vista on a 60 gig partition, simple to do using the recovery disks provided by Toshiba. For the record, it is very important that you install the Microsoft Windows OS first if you plan on dual booting with Linux, so you can rewrite the micro$oft boot manager with the more friendly Linux boot manager. Basically, you aren’t under time constraints to choose which OS you want to boot at startup.

Today, I fidgeted with excitement as I booted up my clean Vista install, and as a first task on this windows machine, immediately browsed to Ubuntu.com to download Hardy Heron. Read the rest of this entry »

Just a quick note to all of our readers… I received an email a few minutes ago that Dotster will be giving away 500 domain names tomorrow at 1 PM Pacific to the first ones to click a banner on their site. Being the domain name tech-junkie I am, this of course excites me as I have several I’ve been thinking about. I figured passing this information along would be good for karma’s sake (e.g. In hopes I’m not the 501st person to click on the banner). Below is the content from the newsletter:

To stay in the spirit of Happy Hour, I will be tasting several Tempranillo blends for a client who will soon be releasing a new wine brand. Free wine is AWESOME! Once they get the juice right, we’re going to send out some free samples, so if your interested, contact us

EDIT: We’ve started receiving quite a bit of traffic on this post… To those of you coming from reddit.com, welcome, and Thank You for visiting. I just realized we do not have a link up, so I went and created a CJ Affiliate account for one -> Dotster.com.

I was browsing through some old notes, and found this post by Ryan Opaz at Catavino talking about their site stats, and figuring out the reality behind pageviews in the wine industry. The post had spawned a great discussion, and in preparing a response, I decided should just write a post about site stats.

Are you tracking visitors to your website? If the answer is NO, then you have to catch up with the times. If you owned a hardware store, and I could tell you information about:

• who your customers are
• how many customers you have
• how they find you
• how long each of them are in your store
• what they are looking at
• how long someone is in a particular section
• is this their first visit
• what they bought
• at what point did they decide to leave

Would you not practically beg me for this? Read the rest of this entry »

I received this Press Release in the inbox a few minutes ago, and thought we could share. We had several conversations with Chris at ZanMedia a while back concerning this film, and really like the direction it is headed in promoting the wine industry. Just a helpful tip to anyone marketing movies… It is ALWAYS a good idea to put your trailer on youtube. (I would have embedded it into this page for our readers if I could have found this one)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For More Information contact:
Niki Scioli, Associate Producer
Zan Media
(415-897-8393)

The University of Rochester Medical Center yesterday, released research information concluding that the antioxidants in red wine not only enhance the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy treatment, but also appear to kill cancer cells. Read the rest of this entry »