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An article went up on the site (as well as out with the newsletter) for TravelSmith, a travel clothier based in northern California. The article covered tea and coffee drinking across the various regions of Europe and was meant as a bit of advice for those traveling whose preferences might not be met where they are going.
    
    Coffee and Tea Across Europe

A series of photos from travels through Serbia were featured in Pology, which is an online culture magazine.
    
    Serbia in Photos

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 is garbage. We know. We used it for a great number of years and now it continues to curse our web developments. It is, for all purposes, broken. There is no fixing it. There are just doing little things in websites so that people who visit using IE6 don't see the thing completely blow up.
    So, it's with this that we started up something of a hobby project called, End 6!. It's pretty simple. There's a little chunk of JavaScript that someone can put on their site that triggers a window which gets in the user's face about the fact that they're using a browser that is bad. Then there is the hope that they'll click on one of the links provided to upgrade their browser and make the internet a more friendly place.
    This may sound like it's just something that we're doing to make our lives easier and that is part of it. But, we generally get paid by the hour, so why should we care if a job takes an hour longer to do because we have to fix IE6 bugs? Well, because it's just stupid waste. But, more importantly there is the fact that people using IE6 open up their computer to any number of vulnerabilities since Microsoft is not really putting any effort in to patching IE6, seeing as how it is obsolete.
    What's the solution? Besides running the End 6! code on a site of your own, upgrade to Explorer 7, Firefox, or Opera and stop being one of the 35-50% of users on this broken system.

Blue Danube Wine is a wine importer in California that sells wine from all over the Balkans. We worked to write a lengthy series of articles that cover the wines and cultures of the area as we drifted from Montenegro, to Serbia, to Bosnia Herzegovina, to Croatia, to Slovenia, and to Spain.
    The end result gets some ground coverage on wines that he imports as well as well as discovering not only new wineries, but also new wines that none of us had ever heard about.
    
    Europe Travels

Mighty Leaf is a tea maker in Northern California. They make some really good tea and we worked with them to come up with a commissioned wherein their tea would travel with us and see a bit more of the world. The end result was great fun to write and photograph, covering eight countries and three months. They loved the final 24 articles that we provided them and we have to say that we're pretty happy with them as well. That and we got to drink some great tea along the way.
    
    Mighty Travels