Remember Nick Cho & Murky Coffee? Yeah, he was indicted on Tax fraud.

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I write this as I drink a cup of coffee. With ice. Oh, the horror.

Horrible Service - Murky Coffee in Arlington, VA
Update: Murky Coffee Fiasco turns into Blogstorm
Update: Murky Coffee Fiasco makes the Washington Post Metro Section

I made the above posts back in mid-2008. Needless to say, I enjoy ice in my coffee and was a bit incensed by this local coffee owner & his nazi-like coffee fanaticism.

What goes around comes around:

Former Murky Coffee owner indicted on tax fraud

Washington Business Journal

Nicholas Cho, the former owner of the now-defunct Murky Coffee in D.C. and Arlington, has been charged with 82 counts of tax fraud.

Cho surrendered to authorities Tuesday and was booked by the District's Metropolitan Police Department.

Cho could face up to 180 days imprisonment and criminal fines of $5,000, plus restitution and court costs, if convicted on each charge, according to a press release from the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue.

According to court documents, Cho allegedly failed to file timely monthly sales tax returns and make tax payments between Dec. 20, 2004, and Jan. 31, 2008, the tax office said. In total, Cho owes more than $100,000 plus penalties, interest and possible fines, the tax office said.

Cho’s tax problems were made public in 2008, when Murky Coffee was evicted from its Capitol Hill location. Murky Coffee’s Arlington branch was closed later.

Cho moved on to serve in a managerial capacity at Chinatown Coffee Company, which opened in late July at 475 H St. NW.

In a statement, Chinatown Coffee owner Max Brown, said Travis Edwards will be taking over the position of general manager Nov. 1.

"If these allegations are true, we are deeply disturbed and everyone should be held accountable for their actions," Brown said.


iTunes 9.0: Home Sharing Explained

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Like most other Apple Geeks™ I watched today's Apple Event via twitter, live blogs, and Leo Laporte's TWiT Live broadcast, eagerly awaiting news about Apple's new products. When Steve reached the point in his presentation where he introduced the new iTunes 9.0 release, I was very happy to see both Home Sharing and the iPhone application organizer. The new iPhone application organizer is a no-brainer, as shown in the presentation video. Home Sharing at first seemed equally as easy to understand, but seeing as I was at work and I sync my iPhone at home, I was unable to immediately try it out. I finished my workday and quickly rushed home to try out iTunes 9.0. After a short download, installation and iPhone update to 3.1 I began playing around with the features. New iPhone content syncing options: check. iPhone app organizer: check. Home Sharing: Che....err wait. Where did it go? My fiance and I asked each other this question within minutes of one another. We had encountered a problem.

The Home Sharing side-menu item, which initially displayed, instructed us to enter our Apple ID info, had then promptly disappeared. Sharing was not working for us the way we saw other people reporting that it was working for them on twitter, forums and other Apple blogs across the net. At first, I hypothesized that perhaps I had misunderstood the point of Home Sharing and that it was only intended to use as a way to share content across multiple computers who all use the same iTunes account. I was disappointed that my fiance and I could not both use this feature after all, and I abandoned the idea in favor of making dinner and then watching Congressman Joe Wilson (R) of South Carolina declare this evening, in front of Congress, the American Public and the World, that he was a douchebag. My fiance went off to bed while I began watching the presentation video of the Apple event from earlier today. When Apple turned over the demo to one of the other Apple employees who demoed Home Sharing, he made it very apparent that the library he was sharing with was his wife's. Something didn't seem right to me. They never mentioned using the same Apple ID, and while he wasn't clear, his language implied it was between two different Apple ID accounts.

I started searching. I turned to several blogs, gdgt.com, engadget.com, gizmodo.com, tuaw.com, macrumors.com and finally of all places, cNET where I came across this gem of an article. Deep down in the comments of this article, I ran into two back-to-back comments that cleared the entire problem up. 

This is how to get Home Sharing to work between two different Macs who both primarily are used by two different people with two different Apple ID accounts. Turn on Home Sharing on Mac #1. Input the Apple ID login/pass within the Home Sharing screen for Mac #2 (on Mac#1). Then go to Mac #2 and on the Home Sharing screen input the Apple ID login/pass for Mac #1. It seems so simple, right? If only Apple had been a little more clear on their website how to get this to work (or better yet, on the Home Sharing screen instructions).

Obama & daughters visit the Dairy God Mother for frozen custard

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A chalk board at a custard shop in Alexandria, Va., announced the selections made by President Obama and his daughters during a visit on Saturday.Yesterday President Obama took his daughters to my local favorite custard shop here in Alexandria, the Dairy God Mother, a place that I make it a point to take any friends or family to when they come to visit (and I visit myself, more often than I should [last weekend]).

From the New York Times:

 

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Who wants ice cream if you can have a scoop of custard from the Dairy Godmother?

President Obama made another stop on his culinary tour of the Washington region on Saturday, dropping by the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria for a cool afternoon treat. He walked through the doors of The Dairy Godmother with daughters Sasha and Malia in an unannounced visit that startled those inside the bustling neighborhood custard shop.

At this boutique on Mount Vernon Avenue, the sign indicates that the line forms to the right. But Mr. Obama and his small entourage went to the left, bypassing the crowd. No one seemed to mind, store employees said later, as people strained their necks to see what the Obama family was ordering.

President Barack Obama stands with daughters Malia Obama, 10, left, and Sasha Obama, 8, and orders frozen custard at The Dairy Godmother in the Del Ray area of Alexandria, Va., Saturday, June 20, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)The president had a small vanilla custard with hot fudge and almonds. Malia asked for vanilla custard in a waffle cone. And Sasha ordered a brownie sundae with vanilla custard. Bo, the presidential dog, was not along for the ride on this pre-Father’s Day outing, but the store employees sent a bag of “puppy pops” home with the girls.

Mr. Obama paid for the items and offered to leave a tip, according to Elizabeth van Gestel, who rang up his order. Mr. Obama was told that tips aren’t allowed at the Dairy Godmother, so he stayed for about 15 minutes, taking photographs and eating his custard.

It’s the latest in a series of restaurant visits since Mr. Obama took office, which have included stopping for a hotdog at Ben’s Chili Bowl and hamburgers at Ray’s Hell Burgers and Five Guys. He has told his advisers that getting out of the White House – even for a quick trip – is important to him as he tries to remain connected with the outside world and give his daughters a semblance of normalcy.

Mr. Obama may not have known it at the time, but he stumbled on a taste of the Midwest on the East Coast. The Dairy Godmother, which Liz Davis opened eight years ago, is modeled after legendary custard shops that are found throughout her native Wisconsin.

Less than an hour after the First Family returned to the White House – when this reporter dropped by the store for a butter pecan custard for himself – a chalk board was hanging on the wall that announced what the Obamas ordered.President Barack Obama leaves with daughters Malia Obama, 10, left, and Sasha Obama, 8, not pictured, after having frozen custard at The Dairy Godmother in the Del Ray area of Alexandria, Va., Saturday, June 20, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)