The site has been around for years in different forms. Owned by Patrick Havens it has been a family website, a personal blog… and now more of an aggragator, taking information from all over and trying to post the more interesting. Patrick tends to delve into a little bit of everything and reads way too much.

Patrick spends his days as a Graphic Artist for Minuteman Press of Napa. Designing using mainly the Adobe Suite. Patrick is well versed in Illustrator, Photoshop, Pagemaker, Indesign, Acrobat, Designer, as well as Microsoft Publisher, Seagull Bartender, Quark Express and has devloped on NeXT, OPENSTEP, MacOS, MacOSX, Linux*, Windows**.

Note this domain has 4 URLs:
http://www.litwc.com

http://www.litwc.net

http://www.livinginthewhinecountry.com

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How this site is sponsored:
You’d have to be blind to miss it, but here are the sponsorship Opportunities with this site.

Just click the Ad on this site for advertising options through Google Adsense


Amazon.com
I have product Ads under my Reading List and occasionally will pop up on the bottom


Beer Drinking Funds from…
Supplies targeted text ads on the site


ReviewMe
If you would like me to write a review for you


Direct to Dreamhost
You can also post donations of any size directly to my host

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* Currently playing with Scribus, Inkscape and the Gimp in Ubuntu to see if linux can become a decent production development.** Has been forced to use Windows since Windows 3.1 (ok dos 3) and though currently using WindowsXP has a single Windows 2003 Server and not wanting to move to Vista (but was forced to with this new laptop).


And for those wanting it, here is my Amazon Wish List.