WineDiningFun.com

My multi-talented former boss Rowland Archer and his lovely wife Lana have just launched a resource for wine events around the Triangle. Give it a look!

We are Rowland and Lana from Raleigh, NC. We love wine events and hope you do too. We have found it very hard to find wine dinners, tastings and festivals in time to get reservations or tickets and have missed a lot of them that sounded great — after the fact. There are hundreds of web sites, Facebook pages and mailing lists that seem to get updated inconsistently if at all — and who has time to look at all of them hoping to find that one piece of gold buried in all the out-of-date information?

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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-12

  • RT @johnburnsnc The USS Wisconsin is perfect for the #RomneyRyan announcement. It's already hosted one surrender to a Democratic President. #
  • Quick! Tell #Rmoney he picked the wrong battleship! RT @Robert1943 @mtdotnet @johnburnsnc Get your facts straight, it was the USS Missouri #
  • The ultimate truck for chasing storms (or surviving the Apocalypse) is for sale @ Glenwood & Lead Mine.http://t.co/OI5yJt1m #ncwx #geek #
  • Congratulations on your reelection, @barackobama! #

The future of energy

My brain finally put together the puzzle pieces about our energy conundrum today. All the things I’d been pondering finally fell into place.

It started yesterday when a Facebook friend of mine knocked our space program as a waste of money. She and I agree on many points, so I was a bit taken aback at her lack of appreciation. I made the point that many new technologies came out of the space program, though I didn’t name any specifically.
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Raleigh will soon have its own business startup ‘Hub’

HUB Raleigh


It looks like Raleigh may have a place for startups to get started after all, about a year after I mentioned it here. I’m looking forward to learning more about HUB Raleigh!

Frustrated by lack of respectable, low-cost office space and support of other new and emerging business owners, a team of entrepreneurs in Raleigh is launching an equivalent of Durham’s “American Underground.”

Led by Brooks Bell, owner of her own rapidly growing high-tech integration business, and Christopher Gergen, who launched the Bull City Forward business program in Durham, “HUB Raleigh” is set to open on Sept. 15 at 711 Hillsborough Street.

via Raleigh will soon have its own business startup 'Hub' :: WRAL Tech Wire.

US warns China on South China Sea moves

Interesting. I’m glad America still has a strong Navy!

The Obama administration has warned China against further moves to tighten control over a disputed section of the South China Sea, as tensions rose in the flashpoint region.

In a statement, the US State Department cautioned China about its addition of a military garrison and civilian officials near the contested Scarborough Reef and its use of barriers to deny access to foreign ships.

These moves "run counter to collaborative diplomatic efforts to resolve differences and risk further escalating tensions in the region", said the statement, issued early on Friday morning and attributed to Patrick Ventrell, the acting deputy spokesman.

via US warns China on South China Sea moves.