Like most of America I woke up to the news that Teddy Kennedy had passed away. Given the news attention that this is going to receive, for good reason, and frankly the man’s 40+ years of service I couldn’t imagine writing a blog without mentioning his passing.

Teddy Kennedy Picture

Additionally for me personally I have grown to appreciate his life story in that although he made his fair share of mistakes, that his actions and good deeds after those mistakes are what people will remember the man for. I think that we all can appreciate some the achievements that he helped through the senate no matter our political persuasion including civil rights and education among more contentious issues like immigration and health care.

The one thing that has struck me about the news reports early this morning were the comparisons between Ted Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, something I would have never expected to hear. That being said, I can understand that long standing politicians that never turn cynical are few and far between….in fact that club may only have two members.

Ok, so back to wine and my life for a couple short moments. As you can tell I’ve moved the blog from WordPress.com’s free hosting over to my own hosting account….it gives me a new URL as well as a lot more control over the types of features here as well as the theme of the site. To me, it is a worthwhile upgrade for a number of reasons. To start the theme is more search engine friendly, as well as looking a ton better and much more professional according to my wife.

Secondly I’ve gained a lot of knowledge from various blogs and sites in my quest to turn Uncorked Ventures into a company with a real web presence. One thing I can do to give back slightly is to allow Google to follow comment links left in my blog-this is referred to as do-follow. I’m happy to help others leave their links on this site as long as the comments are on topic……and that after a couple of months of moderating comments that we’ve gained some additional business from it.

I think the Uncorked Ventures website is looking pretty good. We’ve got some small changes to make and I, frankly have a lot of work to do in order to get our shopping cart ready for when we begin shipping orders in September…..I’ll probably take most of the day today to continue updating the education section.

As always, thanks for reading.