by Dan York on July 3, 2008
On the Squawk Box for Wednesday, July 2, 2008, we talked about:
- news that Google and Yahoo would start indexing Flash-based websites.
- Adobe handed over control of PDF to ISO so that it is an approved standard.
- Amazon discovered that cloud computing made a great platform for… spammers!
- In some circumstances, encrypted VoIP calls can be interpreted.
- Starbucks closing of over 600 locations.
- Changes in tax laws in the state of Washington and the impact to online sales.
Show notes and links can be found on the call’s web page.
On the call: Dan York (host), Dameon Welch-Abernathy, James Body, Jeanette Fisher, William Volk, Jeb Brillian, Jonathen Jensen and Ian Hood.
by alec on April 17, 2005
After the play last night, we opened a cabernet from Hogue Cellars that’s been in the cellar for the last 5 years. 1998 was a good year for many parts of eastern Washington, and I had been sitting on this one since March 2001. The bottle I bought was never one of Hogue’s top of the line bottles — it was just Hogue’s ordinary $10 workhorse cabernet.
Unfortunately, this is a lesson in the ageability of wine. This bottle is past it’s prime. There was a nice nose of cassis, and cedar. On the palate, though, alcohol and tannins overpowered the remaining fruit in the bottle, and it finished quite tannic.
Sometimes you get lucky. We just finished the last bottle of the 1997 Penfolds Bin 389 that I put down at the same time, and they were marvelous. We’ll still drink the other bottle of this Hogue I’ve got, but it’s now a "Drink with hamburgers" wine.
