A Winter of Discontent
Over the past few weeks and months I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with my computer’s decreasing abilities to perform even the most simple tasks. I’ve tried scrubbing them out, I’ve tried soaking them out, but I still ended up with those pesky ring-around-the-can’t-do-anything-with-this-PC blues.
I had run countless diagnostics that told me my computer […]

Recently Discover Networks contacted me to let me know that my merchant account could now accept the Discover/Novus Card. That was mighty nice of them! Up until now, the californiawinehikes.com shopping cart accepted only MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal.

To allow my customers to use their Discover cards to book a California Wine Hikes tour, all I […]

Image source: Twitter.com
Earlier today, while working on my upcoming presentation, I kept a running tab on my internationally-scattered group of Twitter friends, one of whom, Carol Bancroft of Pour More, realized she hadn’t updated her blogroll* to include a number of her wine-blogging Twitter friends. She offered to add whomever she had heretofore omitted to her […]

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I admit that writing an English-language-only blog tends to exclude more than half the wine-loving population of the world and probably […]

Just noticed that I’ve racked up over 500 votes now on Local Wine Events, which bills itself as the World’s Largest Food & Drink Calendar. What’s also cool about the site is that it lists, as of today, 240 wine- and food-related blogs.
 
As with nearly all of the images I attach to my posts, you […]

 
Contrary to what some believe, double occupancy means ‘two people per room’, not ‘two people per bed’.
A lot of folks don’t understand hotel jargon. I must admit, I can sometimes find it rather baffling myself. And the Internet doesn’t always reveal the truth.
When booking a stay at a hotel, especially when it’s multiple rooms or […]

Wine.com today alerted me to a new Advanced Wine Search feature on their website that easily narrows the search path toward a wine or wines that fit the parameters you select, all in real time. I don’t consider myself so geeky that I know what’s behind this new functionality, but I’ll climb the Tree of Educated Guesses […]

There’s a site called urltrends.com which sends me monthly reports, in visual and textual fashion, of how my website and my blog are trending. These reports display eight-month charts of Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, Google Link Popularity, Yahoo! Link Popularity, and more. I can even compare my sites to other sites and blogs. […]

Uncork the possibilities! Write a review about californiawinehikes.com.
If you’re a blogger and you love really good wine - or love somebody who does - I hereby offer you a contest: review my website, California Wine Hikes, and I’ll link to your review from my blog, Winehiker Witiculture. If your review is the best one submitted, […]

One of the great beauties of wine - the thing that attracts so many of us to wine - is the almost infinite variety of scents that wine imparts to us. Wine offers a broad range of olfactory experiences across a notable spectrum of grape varieties and, beyond color, it is aroma that often characterizes […]