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The Door to Hell

Ron — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:38:44 +0000

While working my way through the top stories in 24 hours on Digg, I came across this very strange picture. Upon further investigation, it turns out to be a hole in the ground that has been burning for over 35 years. Located in Darvaz, Uzbekistan, this crater was created as a result of a failed Russian gas exploration project in the 1950’s. When the ground caved in, gas began to seep out and eventually caught on fire. This fire has been burning nonstop. For more information and pictures, check out the following links:

(Source: http://johnhbradley.com/pictures2.asp?var=070707darvaza)

Favorite IPod Touch WebApps

Ron — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:24:50 +0000

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Map of the US

Ron — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:11:21 +0000

The Fail Blog

Ron — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:31:41 +0000

Very funny site highlighting failure all around us.

http://failblog.wordpress.com/

September 11th Page

Ron — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:22:30 +0000

I originally had some content around September 11th on my site before I migrated to Wordpress. Unfortunately, I’ve been slow to put it back up. While all my photos have remained on the site, I did have a page that focused on the event and my experiences. I have just completed that work now and it now available from the menu items at the top of the site.

How is this allowed?

Ron — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:03:42 +0000

Techdirt: Smartphones Patented… Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute After Patent Issued

What a mess this country is where people make a living on doing this type of crap.

Hydrox - Poor Man’s Oreo

Ron — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:41:17 +0000

The Hydrox Cookie Is Dead, and Fans Won’t Get Over It - WSJ.com: Are you kidding me? I never thought people actually liked these cookies. While I rarely eat this crap, I do remember eating them as a kid. They were pure evil. They were like a poor Armani knockoff. Seriously, why is there a fan club for this edible abomination?

COD:4

Ron — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:02:05 +0000

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare is the best multiplayer FPS ever. If you happen to play, drop me a line.

Review: CellarTracker

Ron — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:20:21 +0000

If you happen to know me, you are aware that I really like wine. I’m no wine snob or oenophile, but I do happen to prefer wine as my drink of choice. I started getting into it a few years ago. I’d go to the store, pick up a few bottles and enjoy them with food and friends. As time has gone on, I’ve become a bit savvier. I’ve taken some tasting classes, read books, and visited Napa a couple of times.

While I dream of one day having my own wine cellar, I manage to get through now by keeping 12-18 bottles on hand in my Brooklyn apartment.

I was interested in starting to track my purchases, wines I liked/disliked and storing general information. I started putting together a spreadsheet and even tried tinkering with phpwims, which is a web application that I installed on my server, but it was lacking in features and function. Maybe there is an online app that could fit the bill?

I then queried the great Interwebnet for such an application. I stumbled upon a great online app called CellarTracker. So rather than storing this information on my computer, I could use this service to host it online and have my data available from anywhere.

So what is CellarTracker anyway you ask?

It is an online cellar management and tasting notes application developed by Eric LeVine.

CellarTracker is suited for collections of any size. So if you have 3 bottles or 38,409 (the largest cellar on the site!), it’s all good. It’s free to use, but if you have a large collection or wish to use some premium features you should make a $30 per year payment (which I have done to support the creator’s efforts)

As far as a list of features, here are the main ones (taken from their site):

Cellar Inventory Management

Report and search by producer, vintage, varietal, drinkability, etc.

Purchase price and valuation data (locale settable)

Consumption history

Barcode support

Restaurant-quality printed wine lists

Per-bottle location & bin tracking

Personal tasting notes

Uploadable label images

Wish lists and shopping lists

Track pending deliveries (a.k.a futures)

Premium feature: Automatic valuation of your cellar (read more)

Express import tools for existing spreadsheets (read more)

Tasting Notes

Record your own notes

Group a series of notes into tasting events

Read community tasting notes

See what others say about wine in your cellar

Automated integration with Stephen Tanzer’s IWC (for co-subscribers)

Store other professional reviews and scores (in compliance with copyright)

Community bulletin board

The great thing about it is the community of other users. You can see other peoples tasting scores and notes, inventory, and even what others have paid for their wine (with paying subscription to the site). There are RSS feeds which allow you to stream your reviews or other data to your blog or anything that uses RSS. There is a mobile site so you can access from your smartphone while on the road.

The reports are really cool too. There are tons of reports and even the ability to create custom ones. I personally like the “Print a wine list” report. You click on it, select your options and presto! You get a restaurant styled wine list:

There are so many great features on this site that I could go on for days. I suggest, that if you enjoy wine and want to document your experiences, you should hop over and try it for yourself.

It’s located on the World Wide Web at: http://www.cellartracker.com

Happy New Year!

Ron — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:30:03 +0000

Happy New Year from Ronpoz.com!