Just spent a fabulous few days in Venice where I was working on a story about five free things to…
Air New Zealand’s new Smaug plane /Photo Air NZ Air New Zealand is the coolest airline. And I’m not just…
My fellow gadgeteers, rejoice. The FAA has announced it’s OK to use your cell phones during all phases of flights.…
David Pogue of The New York Times has an interesting column about T-Mobile that is a must-read for anyone who…
Just spent a fabulous few days in Venice where I was working on a story about five free things to do there, part of a regular and extremely useful feature run by the Associated Press. Winter’s a good time to visit la Serenissima. The crowds are more bearable, the canals don’t reek and the inhabitants…
Air New Zealand is the coolest airline. And I’m not just saying that because I recently was upgraded to business for the Auckland-San Francisco flight. Although that was awesome. I’m saying it because the airline has just unveiled a Boeing 777-300 aircraft with a 177-foot long Dragon Smaug emblazoned on both sides. The character, of…
My fellow gadgeteers, rejoice. The FAA has announced it’s OK to use your cell phones during all phases of flights. This means you, too, Alec Baldwin. We have all known for a while that the “turn off your cellphones and other electronic devices” routine is a bit weird. I mean, really? You have a multimillion-dollar…
David Pogue of The New York Times has an interesting column about T-Mobile that is a must-read for anyone who wants to use a cellphone abroad. The company is announcing that not only will it not be charging the usual arm+leg for using your phone overseas, they’re not going to charge anything at all unless…
You know Fred MacMurray as a distinguished and gentlemanly actor. But did you also know he was a serious farmer and rancher in Sonoma wine country? MacMurray and his wife, actress June Haver, raised Angus beef, not grapes,but these days the ranch, now owned by the Gallo family, is part of the wine scene with…
It’s a warm summer evening in the Napa Valley and the clink of glasses echoes along the restaurant-rich main drag of tiny Yountville as two weddings, a college reunion and the usual Friday night dinner crowd get ready for some serious wining and dining. Suddenly, heads turn and eyes widen as a tall man, a…
Let me be up front with you. I like chardonnay. I don’t care that it’s what the masses drink (No. 1 varietal in the country) or that sophisticated enophiles roll their eyes at the mention of it and have gone so far as to form a satirical ABC club (Anything But Chardonnay). And I don’t…
If you have spent a lot of time with wine drinkers you may find this video from the Boring Wine Guy amusing.
It’s summer here in the San Francisco Bay area which means that I’m wearing, jeans, a shirt, a sweater, a jacket … and I’m still cold. I’ve been assured by scholars at the University of California, Berkeley, that there’s no evidence Mark Twain actually said, “The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San…
