Clinton Stark
Clinton shoots videos for Stark Insider. San Francisco Bay Area arts, Ingmar Bergman and French New Wave, and chasing the perfect home espresso shot 25 seconds at a time (and failing). Peloton: ClintTheMint. Camera: Video Gear
Where’s the USDA beef? Maybe at Costco…
When I scanned the Wall Street Journal online headlines this morning, for a moment I thought I was reading a Whole Foods flyer. What was this, a piece of nicely marbled red meat tempting me, even so early in the day, as I still work my first espresso—on the...
And you thought your last job interview was tough
Upholding the constitution is not for part-timers, or people with half-hearted ambition. Those were just a few of the myriad of thoughts that crossed my mind while watching the Sonia Sotomayor hearings, reading transcripts and scouring sites like CNN, The Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal to get the...
Weekly digest: Billy Berk’s San Jose, Cinequest Announcement, All Goode
News and Editorials
2010 Honda Insight adds respectable handling to hybrid market
Rumor mill: Microsoft announcement Monday, launching ‘Office Web’?
Loreto Bay: When more information is less information… by Al Graichen
Watch out Microsoft: Google formally announces Chrome Operating System, turns up heat
Intel to Lenovo and Samsung: No special pricing for you!
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2010 Honda Insight adds respectable handling to hybrid market
Toyota, with its successful Prius model, has enjoyed several years of little competition in the 4-door hybrid market. Although Honda had been selling an older generation Insight, its styling and technology were dated.
With the 2010 Honda Insight, that is no longer the case. Engineers at the vaunted Japanese automaker...
Rumor mill: Microsoft announcement Monday, launching ‘Office Web’?
Cloud computing could get even more interesting next week if this rumor proves true. Hot on the heels of Google's Chrome OS announcement this week (Watch out Microsoft: Google formally announces Chrome Operating System, turns up heat), it appears that the Redmond giant is awakening to the cloud, finally......
Sharp falloff in sales for wines over $25, social networking a partial solution?
A Wall Street Journal article confirms essentially what most of us had suspected: that high end wine sales are hurting.
According to the article, which cites Jon Fredrikson from Gomberg, Frederikson & Associates, even though first quarter sales volume is up 5%, sales of wine priced above $25 per...
Watch out Microsoft: Google formally announces Chrome Operating System, turns up heat
It was only a matter of time; 9:37pm Pacific Time on July 7, 2009 in an innocent appearing blog post to be exact.
With "cloud computing"—a term used to describe the new world of light weight computing where local storage and processing matters less—on the rise, Google is taking the...
Murphy-Goode down to the top 10 finalists
Drum roll please... we have the top 10 list of contestants vying for that apparently coveted Murphy Goode blogging job at the Sonoma winery. The list was released today and, in addition to the requisite YouTube auditions, also includes an "about" section featuring tid-bits of interest.
Notable finalists include a...
2005 Chateau St. Jean Chardonnay Robert Young Vineyard Reserve (93 pts, $45)
The grapes are sourced from 4 vineyards: Robery Young Vineyard (50%), Belle Terre (20%), Durell (20%), Cold Creek (10%).
Intel to Lenovo and Samsung: No special pricing for you!
Intel today revoked preferential pricing to Lenovo and Samsung for its Atom chipset which power popular netbook models, typically with screens 10-inches and smaller. Apparently both manufacturers violated terms by using the lower-priced chipset in models with larger screen sizes.
The netbook market is an entertaining place these days. First,...
