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This travel journal entry details a visit to Seattle and a road trip to Washington state's west coast.

This post details my own experience of division at the Peace Wall in Belfast and a brief explainer of Ireland and Northern Ireland disputes.

This post details a trip to Belize (San Ignacio, San Pedro, ATM Cave), as well as a day trip to the Mayan ruins of Tikal in Guatemala.

The time has come to leave Italy. Thick, dark clouds are rolling into Venice as we take off, and that’s not a place I want to be when it...

This tech post details the trials, tribulations, and also pleasant moments while unboxing, setting up, and testing a Dell XPS 13" laptop.

This post reviews the WSJwine Club and Pezzo Wines included with this delivery subscription service.

This travel journal details both the fascination and confusion brought on by one of the world's great cities: Venice, Italy.

This journal post details our first visit to Florence, Italy.

We start the day in Siena with a continental breakfast – the standard, uninspired fare of hardboiled eggs, cold cuts, cheese, bread. Evermore important, though, we get the party started by pounding some machine-made espresso, then we head outside. The van pulls up right on schedule, and we are the second couple in. We stop at two more hotels up the road, then begin the 45 minute trek along winding roads of Tuscany. Eventually, the medieval towers of San Gimignano start to pee

“Tuscany looks like what all of Italy should look like.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (attributed) We stare out the train window as the...

This post details a day trip to Naples and Pompeii from Rome, during our summer excursion through Italy.

This post details the Rome portion of our summer travels through Italy.

The post chronicles four short nights in Paris, France.

This travel journal details three busy days spent exploring London.

I work on one of the most-watched shows on TV. This is no small operation. Just like any other big, legitimately successful enterprise,...

Last night I bottled my second batch of beer, and maaaan was it a challenge. As mentioned in my previous post [ (Home)Brewing Some Beer ], the Mr. Beer kit is a good way to begin to learn the craft. The equipment leaves something to be desired, however, as it’s cheap. But as we’ve all heard, “you get what you pay for.” Everything is plastic, which means replacement parts are required at some point. Unfortunately, in my case, the need for a replacement part came much too soon.

I just purchased a Mac Mini, and I’d like to share my initial thoughts. I’m pretty stoked about the purchase, as my other desktop computer has gotten too old to run the newest version of Pro Tools audio software. And that old (2005) Dell computer is just cramping my style in general. Comparatively, the Mac Mini is so small and sleek looking, but let’s really get into the review: INITIAL START UP TIME: I made a leap from OS X 10.6 on my laptop to 10.8 on the Mini. Starting up

The walls that enclose the rail line are covered with graffiti, and the train terminal feels grimy and is filled with a lot of...

Siena is such a confusing place, initially, when arriving by rail. You walk out the front door of the train station, and all you see in...

A work in progress: a “top 10” of really great albums that flew under the radar: Dandy Warhols – “Welcome to the Monkey House” You may have heard a couple tracks from this 2003 release on the radio and TV. “We Used to be Friends” was the theme song for the show Veronica Mars and “You Were the Last High” had some radio rotation. Other than that, it seems there were no real accolades to speak of, although the album is excellent. It was produced by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran whi