A new entry in the “global vegan restaurant directory” category came to my attention late last week: More than Salad. While I appreciate the humor in the Terms of Service: I’m not sure I’d spend a ton of time entering reviews here over my favorite VegGuide, which clearly licenses its content for others to use under a permissive license as [...]

I have something of a love-hate relationship with mega-chain Starbucks. On the one hand, they consistently offer soy milk in (almost) every store, which I appreciated as a vegan. On the other hand, they are a mega chain, and I prefer to patronize local independent coffeehouses when possible, and they charge $0.40 extra for drinks with soy. On the one [...]

Dinner last night was at Chicago’s famous Veggie Diner. The menu’s nicely varied – not too focused on the faux-meats, with a broad variety of dishes, as well as vegan organic wines and beers. We had a fabulous Sweet Potatoe Polenta cake appetizer, and I had a spicy Thai Tofu rice bowl with broccoli. Had to get the hot sauce [...]

Took the opportunity to flee the Oregon Convention Center at lunch today and head over to Veganopolis for lunch. Just a few short MAX stops from the convention center, and with a vegan lunch buffet.

Next week I will be in Portland, OR for OSCON 2007. I know there’s a lot of great vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants and stores there, but I don’t have a sense of where they are, and couldn’t find a good map-based guide. VegGuide.org makes a listing of restaurants and stores in the Portland area available as an RSS feed under [...]

We spent a night in Bath, on our way to Bristol airport to fly over to Dublin. Bath’s a great town – we could have spent another couple of days there easily. We had dinner at Demuth’s Vegetarian Restaurant, whose owners . . . aim to make Demuths the best vegetarian restaurant in the south west of England. For the [...]

(via the Official Google Blog) Google now offers a flight info service (for flights departing from or arriving in the U.S.) with information from flightstats.com. Just text your flight number to 466453 (which spells google if your phone has a traditional key layout – on my blackjack I had to add this to contacts to remember it) and you’ll get [...]

I was in Detroit, Michigan earlier this week. (I hear many folks now describe this area as “southeastern Michigan” rather than “the Detroit area” – to avoid scaring away the out-of-towners.)

I’m visiting the new Optaros office in Austin this week. Who knew it could be so challenging to get between two major US cities? There was really no direct flight that was going to make this easy.

So I’m in Cincinnati, Ohio, this week for work. (map) I flew in Tuesday night. After the “Northern Kentucky Regional Airport” and their no cabs without first getting a taxi request slip from the desk inside the airport – which took me a few minutes to figure out, and a $25 cab ride into Cincinnati, I arrived at the Westin [...]