Weekly Roundup Friday 10 June 2011
Good morning And hello to you this morning from York, where I’m spending a couple of days prior to traveling on up to Scotland on Sunday to join this year’s Scotland tour. This will be […]
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Weekly Roundup Friday 3 June 2011
Good morning It has been a week of steady posting from me to you – at least, it has been for those of you who receive realtime or daily updates, as opposed to the weekly
More Thoughts on Radiation from Phones and Other Things
It is possible I may have struck a slightly too gloating tone in my article about cell phones being bad for your health a couple of days ago, but as long time readers know, this
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‘Very Sensitive’ Police Lie Through Their Teeth, Bully and Harass Innocent Photographer for 48 Minutes
What part of ‘there is no law against taking pictures of trains’ does the Maryland Transit Authority police not understand? This isn’t rocket science, and these people are specialist transport police. Look at this video
At Last – Vindication. I Was Right; Everyone Else (Almost) Was Wrong. Cell Phones Truly Are Bad For Your Health
For as long as I’ve been writing The Travel Insider, I’ve been waging a lonely war, trying to convey the danger that cell phones pose to our health. This has not been easy, and I’ve
Microsoft Makes More Money from Android than from Windows Phone 7
Microsoft’s great shining hope (in its eyes) to regain some type of position of prominence in the smart phone marketplace is its Windows Phone 7 operating system. It has spent who knows how many billions
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Win a Trip for Two to New Zealand by Tweeting
Wouldn’t you like a free trip for two to New Zealand? If so, what you need to do is send a tweet describing a Brancott wine and include the tag #WhatIf in your tweet. Entries
Three ‘Skilled Professional Pilots’ Crash Plane and Kill 228 People
An airline praised its captain and the other two pilots who were flying the plane, saying they were ‘three skilled pilots who had demonstrated a totally professional attitude and were committed to carrying out their
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Weekly Roundup Friday 27 May 2011
Good morning Memorial Day weekend marks the traditional start of our summer season; although with the crazy weather we’ve been having of late, who only knows when and what summer will be like this year.
The Unpleasant Downside of The World’s Longest 747 Route
Qantas recently commenced service with 747s flying from Sydney to Dallas, and then back to Brisbane (the route back to Sydney was too far due to more head winds going south-west than coming north-east). This
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Boeing probably delays still further any announcement about a 737 successor
In a statement that perhaps inadvertently displays the convoluted logic and indecision that is plaguing Boeing's snails-pace approach to choosing a strategy for a 737 successor, Jim Albaugh, head of their Commercial Airplanes division, said
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Montezuma’s Revenge : The Most Likely Places to Get Diarrhea
An occasional downside to travel is our increased susceptibility to 'Traveler's Tummy', or any of half a dozen other terms all used to refer to the unfortunate situation of an upset stomach and diarrhea. As
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