Software Malfunction - Part 2

After nearly three whole days of being completely invisible, Vegas Wineaux is back online. Still somewhat fractured, but no longer completely broken! It will be back to its usual beautiful self very soon, I promise.

For those of you who may be technically inclined, here is a synopsis of what happened.

Every blog in the world is run on some sort of platform – an “engine” if you will – that performs very basic functions that allows bloggers to manage their blogs. My particular platform of choice is WordPress. I used to have Blogger (Blogspot) as my platform but wanted more flexibility in customizing my own designs and activating certain features. I also wanted to get away from the “Blog” look and have a site that was user friendly and offered a lot of reading, website-like features, better look and feel, and user interactivity. WordPress allowed me to do that, and since I’m a technical person, the hand-coding that had to be done in order to achieve my goals was only slightly daunting.

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Hizzoner and Vegas Wineaux!

A sudden flurry of errands found me at Trader Joe’s early Saturday morning, and who should be there promoting a small Health Fair, but Oscar Goodman, the “Happiest Mayor in the Universe” of Las Vegas! Of course I had to take full advantage and chat with hizzoner. (It was really much more complicated than this since I didn’t have my camera with me and had an advanced case of bed hair. But that was an epic by itself).

Oscar has always been gracious and ebullient with his constituency and of course, that day was no exception. Read more

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This Ain’t Yo’ Momma’s Wine 101!! The Philosophy of Combatting Swirl Envy.

We get a lot of questions asking about our special (that means “different”) type of wine classes.

Well, this ain’t yo’ Momma’s Wine 101.

In fact, except for educating the palate, there’s very little about actual wine that’s talked about. It’s all about progressing from rank neophyte to wine snob.

Let me tell you a little about my history.

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