As the old saw goes, "necessity is the mother of invention." I wondered how true that was anymore as I tossed my pair of wireless digital mp3 I-boots onto the give-away pile. How much technology is created just to see who will buy it? I quipped in my review of vineyard software products (see the July 2006 issue), "How can anyone grow grapes without a database?" I then proceeded to discuss all of the great features being included with the current wave of viticultural databases. It is certainly i...