Friday Apr 18, 2008

In just under four years since the inception of blogs.sun.com, we've reached another major landmark: 100,000 total blog entries. Growth has been exponential- nearly 40% of that is just in the past year, according to the site statistics captured by the Wayback Machine.

What's next? I fully expect to see continued growth with blogs.sun.com, but I'm also really excited with the rate wikis.sun.com is growing. In the first 8 months, we've seen 12k registered users and 5500 pages created. This is roughly increasing 30% month over month, with March showing 63k visits and 220k pageviews. I fully suspect wikis.sun.com will follow in the blogs.sun.com footsteps, as far as exponential adoption- and will be an equally major shift in how Sun communicates with the world.

Thursday Apr 10, 2008

This video has renewed my interest in raising bees. I didn't even think to keep the hive on the roof. Thats a great solution- even though I've got a backyard (as its not near any neighbor's backyards, or readily accessible by children.)


Wednesday Apr 09, 2008

To supplement my somewhat expensive wine club purchases (2007 was Turley, Reynolds Family, Rhys. 2008 will be Rhys and Ridge Monte Bello)-- and my insanely expensive home addition-- I've been leaning heavily on the affordable K&L staff pics, which this last purchase is large based on. (and yes, they are strongly biased towards Aussie wines, but I'm digging them lately- especially for their value.) Besides the Kim Crawford- which had a solid 2006 vintage- these are all new to me. I've found plenty wines that are readily available I'd consider daily drinkers, but there's still a never-ending stream of wines I've never tried. These take priority. If any of you have tried stuff from this list, I'd love to hear your comments...

Purchase ItemUnit PriceQtyTotal Price
2006 Evil (R Wines) Cabernet Sauvignon South Australia$8.991$8.99
2006 Strong Arms (R Wines) Shiraz South Australia$9.991$9.99
2005 Byron Santa Maria Chardonnay$16.992$33.98
2005 Patient Cottat Sauvignon Blanc$10.991$10.99
2006 Three Rings Barossa Valley Shiraz$12.991$12.99
2004 d'Arenberg "d'Arry's Original" Shiraz-Grenache McLaren Vale South Australia$12.991$12.99
Ron Zacapa Centenario 23 year old Rum 750ml$37.991$37.99
2005 Ferngrove Vineyards Estate Sauvignon Blanc-Semillon Frankland River Western Australia (Elsewhere $11.99)$6.991$6.99
2006 Bernier Chardonnay Vins du Pays Jardin de la France$6.991$6.99
Roederer Estate Anderson Valley Brut$16.991$16.99
2007 Kim Crawford Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc$13.992$27.98
2006 Bitch Grenache South Australia$8.991$8.99
2006 Torbreck "Woodcutters" Shiraz Barossa Valley$16.991$16.99
2006 Fontanafredda Barbera Piemonte "Briccotondo"$10.991$10.99


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