Softtechvc's Journals

Happy Holidays!

To all my fellow Buzznet'ers: Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, etc. May you have a great time with family and friends celebrating, and remember: Carpe Diem.

Kill Bill

Ok, I won't pretend that I am up to date since I watched Kill Bill for the first time tonight, but boy what a film. Really cool for kung-fu shit lovers :-). Can't wait to receive the DVD of the sequel.

In Paris for a week

I have taken the opportunity of speaking at Les Blogs II to spend a bit of time in Paris. After visiting my folks and my inlaws, I am now crashing at my good friend Marc's place. Between the conference, a number of dinners, parties and meetings, it is going to be a busy week.
Oh yeah, and on Wednesday we organize the third installment of the Clavier-Goldberg-Sepulveda Entrepreneurs dinner. No hot IPO has come out of it yet, but soon :-).

For wealthy wine lovers: top Leoville Las Cases

Just got an email from K&L Wine, one of the best wine retailers in the Bay Area, offering truely exceptional Leoville Las Cases vintages. If you can afford them, go ahead...

Direct from the property - These wines are being sold on futures basis and are due to arrive in December.

LÃ©oville-Las-Cases, St-Julien "100-point Dream Case"
Price: $2499.00 (Six 750ml bottles)

A set direct from the Chateau containing 2 (750 ml) each of 1982, 1986, and 2000 vintage Leoville Las Cases-all 100 point Robert Parker wines. Special wood box-must be sold as a set. The perfect dream case-very limited availability.

LÃ©oville-Las-Cases, St-Julien "100-point Dream Case"
Price: $4999.00 (Six 1.5L bottles)

A set direct from the Chateau containing 2 magnums (1.5L) each of 1982, 1986, and 2000 vintage Leoville Las Cases-all 100 point Robert Parker wines. Special wood box-must be sold as a set. The perfect dream case for the serious wine collector-very limited availability.

LÃ©oville-Las-Cases, St-Julien "Best Vintages of the Last 35 Years"
Price: $3999.00 (Six 1.5L bottles)

A set direct from the Chateau containing One Magnum (1.5L) each of the best six vintages of Leoville Las Cases from the last 35 years - 1btl ea of 1982,1986, 1990, 1995, 1996, and 2000 vintages. All wines rated 95-100 points by Robert Parker. A serious addition to a wine collector's cellar. Very limited availability-special wood box.

LÃ©oville-Las-Cases, St-Julien "Best Value Wines"
Price: $1399.00 (Twelve 750ml bottles)

A set direct from the Chateau containing 12 bottles of 750 ml. 2 each of 1983, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, and 1999. Special wood box with these excellent "value" Leoville Las Cases vintages.

Clos du Marquis, St-Julien "Special vertical case"
Price: $499.99 (Twelve 750ml bottles)

For those who love Las Cases and their second wine-A set direct from the Chateau containing 2 bottles of each of the last six vintages of the 90s.. (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000). Clos du Marquis is truly one of the great second wines from Bordeaux. A great addition to a Bordeaux wine lover's cellar.

Katrina: Mississippi Sun Herald group photoblog

The Mississippi Sun Herald now has a group photoblog hosted on Buzznet allowing people to post pictures, and stories, related to the Katrina Hurricane. A lot of comments are actually messages from family members trying to get in touch with missing relatives.

Pictures can be posted through this web interface or by email (e.g. from mobile phones).

Om Malik also points to a website put together by Earthlink employees to help victims reconnect with their families.

Lots of new good from Buzznet!

Check this out people: your favorite photosharing community has brought to you a lot of new cool stuff over the past few weeks:

Journals, so that you can publish your thoughts and personal diaries alongside your photos. And you can add links to pictures with just a few clicks.
Book and poster printing, in partnership with our friends at QOOP
A new search interface: keyword search and a powerful people search. The keyword search is also integrated in your home page (below your list of galleries).
Presence: you can now see who in your friends list in online.

Many more functionality to come, as well as the much expected overhaul of the back-end server infrastructure.

And if you are in LA on Sept 1st, don't miss the Buzznet Party (the first 300 Buzzneters showing up will get a free admission).

PS: I like the one-click linking of pictures...

My first Buzznet Journal entry...

...is an apology for not posting a lot over the past couple of weeks. But hols and broadband access in Spain have been a bit "challenging".

Hope you like this blogging feature!