Note: I am not a lawyer and the following is not legal advice – its just information and experience I’ve collected over the years taking pictures in NYC and of trains, that I offer up to the reader. If you like to take pictures in NYC, especially of MTA stuff like trains and subways, you [...]

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The new OCZ Z-Drive , the PCI-Express-connected, high performance solid state drive, with 450 MB/s read speed and 300MB/s write speed, is Now listed on Amazon.com with a 1 to 3 month lead time. I am a huge fan of high-performance solid state drives. My first was an MTRON, which had about 100 MB/s reads [...]

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The following guest post is by my friend Jay Kell, of Verge Wines. Being in the wine business is quite a blessing. Despite the economy being on shaky ground, nervous distributors, overwhelmed sommeliers, my partner/winemaker Mike Brunson and I can still walk outside among the vines, breathe the fresh air, and really get back to [...]

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Before moving to Greenwich in 2006, I spent 11 years living in California’s Sonoma Wine Country. Sonoma County is just plain gorgeous, and many of the winemakers there are some of the least pretentious, down-to-earth, friendliest people you will ever have the pleasure of meeting. …and so it is with my very good friends Mike [...]

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Tomorrow the shot-in-Connecticut horror flick ‘Plague Town’ gets released on both DVD and Blu-Ray! Plague Town is the story of a bunch of American tourists in Ireland, who get stranded in the middle of nowhere and get the swine flu attacked by some scary people. That’s about all I know! OK, I also know that [...]

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    When I moved to Connecticut from California, I made sure that my new home had Verizon FiOs. FiOs is the promised land, where the phone company drags optical fiber all the way to your doorstep, your bandwidth isn’t shared by your neighborhood, and reliability and service are features you can say aloud without [...]

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