Royters News: Now what do we do?

A massive DDOS attack (from of a hacking attack) has brought down a lot of social media as well streaming sites like Netflix, Spotify in the US. On a Friday evening! No less!!

Now people have been left with no choice but to (gasp!) talk to each other. Unfortunately, most of their sentences so far have been constructed with the words – “Like”, “Retweet”, “Share” and “Pound Sign” :-)(Apparently some did not get the memo that it is called HashTag 🙂 )

https://www.cnet.com/news/internet-outage-dyn-ddos-attack-twitter-spotify/

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21 October 2016

New vineyards and a new friend

This week started very early and then continued with a feverish pitch. Somewhere, lost in the blur of all those meetings, I remember being in Washington DC, Dallas, TX and then Portland, OR. By Thursday evening, I felt I was justified to go visit a new vineyard. Being in Oregon helps!!

Grabbed Anand who has recently moved his family from Dallas to Portland and went to Cooper Mountain Vineyards which was about a 10 mile drive from his house. Got to try out quite a few Pinots while there. But more importantly, made a new friend in Barbara Gross whose family owns the place. Both Anand an I got to learn a lot about the history of Oregon wines and quite some about growing grapes from Barbara.

Also, Jean and Annie, I totally threw in your names as my friends to come across as somebody knowledgeable about Oregon wines 🙂 🙂 Which, as all of us agree, innumerable bottles later, sadly, I am indeed not 🙂