Australia’s Hardy Wine company has introduced a one serving wine bottle with a detachable plastic wine glass. They call it the Shuttle and say that it will redefine the way people will drink their wine. You will be able to choose between Shiraz and Chardonnay packaged in a single serve acrylic wine bottle [...]

I hope that an article in yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer is not indicative of how low humanity is sinking, but today’s reports of five women killed by a serial murderer in England this week doesn’t help.
The Inquirer article is about the trial of Tyrone Spellman who ’snapped’ and killed his 17 month old daughter when she [...]

I read an interesting article in the Sunday Telegraph today that made me even more pessimistic about the prospects for peace in the Middle East. As most people know, I am a strong opponent of the war in Iraq and I feel strongly that it has, and will continue to, destabilize the region. [...]

We had a router failure this morning, so the server has been offline all day.  Normally when this happens, I just need to reboot our wireless router and everything is fine again, so I did that and headed off to work.  Then, much to my dismay as I sat down to my morning coffee, I [...]

I have finally revived a section of the website entitled Classic Climbs. I created this site in 1997, but I stopped updating it in 1999 and eventually I stopped linking to it because it was looking so out of date and no longer fit with the rest of the site.
Climbing at the Gunks last [...]

Juliette’s away in Africa again, so I find myself going a bit stir crazy. The look of the site has been annoying me for awhile now, so, as a part of a general server overhaul, I decided to give it a makeover. It isn’t done yet, but I like the cleaner design and [...]

Juliette is back in Gabon and I am just back from a week in Boston at the Microsoft TechEd conference. It was a good week, but long with sessions going late into the evening and starting early every day, so I didn’t get much of a chance to explore Boston. It seems like [...]

The weather for the most part this Spring has been warm and quite dry so the first weekend after we got back from France we headed for Buffalo crag with Tim and Lisa and did one of our first outdoor climbs this year. Actually, for Lisa it was her first ever outdoor climb, and, as [...]

It has been a long time coming, but this is the last weekend that Juliette will be away. She will be getting on a plane on Tuesday and flying back to me. She is doing well and enjoying the job although she is homesick and looking forward to getting back. We have [...]

Juliette called me this morning from Gabon. After travelling from Sunday night to Tuesday morning, she landed, changed into her coveralls and her new steel toe boots and started work nearly immediately.
When I talked to her she sounded super tired and a bit burnt out, but she is fine. She is getting off [...]