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After a very interesting trip on logging

roads from Wine Country to the Coast, we finally hooked up with US101.   The quote from the innkeeper, "[sic] you two should be alright.”

Some explanation is in order, it was a beautiful drive but was straight out of “Ax Men”.  At one point it was a single lane non-paved path,  no cell service, and no GPS!   When we got to the hotel yesterday, I looked at Google maps, and there is no road there.    I won’t forget this for a very long time.

We kept traveling down US101 to Depoe Bay and stopping at all the St Beaches (Waysides).   Scenery is breathtaking.   Was really neat to see the kite surfers.

Just a couple more pics because I have so many good ones.

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Visiting Portland, OR and we are doing some wine tasting.    First impressions – anything you grab from Chelaham winery is really good.    The Pinot’s have great structure, intense fruit & depth that you don’t find much in Pinot Noir.

Staying at the Lions Gate Inn B&B.   This place is beautiful.  

Vintage arts & crafts, nice gardens, a great restoration and a great inns keeper.

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Anyone really surprised that despite her repeated assertions that House Speaker Pelosi didn’t know about the interrogation tactics being used that we are now learning otherwise?

This quote from an article in the Washington Post says it all, “Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners”.

Its time for her to come clean about what she really knew.

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Recently I’ve installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a laptop (not work) and have been trying to live on the other side. This note represents my first blog post from this laptop.

Impressions
• Firefox continues to be my main browser.
• Google Apps for Domains (email hosting & calendaring) works nicely.
• OpenOffice 3.0 – Does everything I need outside of work.
• Dropbox – Cool Cross Platform solution for file sync across machines.
• XMMS – Nice WinAmp replacement
• TomBoy – Note taking app that does everything I need
• VLC Player – works just as well as it does on Windows.
• FileZilla – Great FTP client.

What I haven’t found yet
• BitTorrent – a good client that I like.
• Adobe Lightroom replacement (I’m hooked on this app and probably won’t find an alternative)

The future
• I’ve been working on brewing software that runs cross-platform. I hope to debut this soon.

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