Restaurant owners almost universally detest columns like the one you're about to read, but if you are a patron of one of these places (and this applies to about 95 percent of restaurants that carry wine), then you'll agree with me: Restaurant wine prices are far too high.

Today's column is about the Web 2.0, an era that's just getting fired up. It will be the subject of my talk tomorrow night at the Napa Valley PC Users Group at the Napa Senior Activity Center, 1500 Jefferson St. The meeting starts at 7 p.m., and I'll be on about 8.