Weekly Roundup Friday 27 July 2012
Good morning I hope you’re enjoying the summer, and if you’re going to the Olympics, I hope you managed to physically get your tickets – a dismayingly nontrivial task, as one of our readers discovered …
July 2012
Security Flaw in 4+ Million Hotel Keycard Locks
Remember the good old days when a hotel would give you an actual key to your hotel room door? Actually, I prefer the keycards – they are easier to keep in a wallet, and they …
Danger : Cruising – and Cruise Lines – Can Be Harmful to Your Health
Most people on most cruises are middle aged and older. Any time you get a thousand or more middle aged and elderly people together for a week or so, simple unavoidable statistics dictate the likelihood …
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Airlines vs Passengers : A Win for Passengers (and the DoT)
Good news for us. New regulations introduced by the DoT require airlines to show the total price of a ticket in the advertising, inclusive of all taxes and fees. Other provisions of the new regulations …
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An Englishman’s Problems Visiting the US : Strange Story – Even Stranger Excuse
In 1972 an Englishman was traveling through Afghanistan and had his passport stolen. The British Embassy in Kabul issued him a new one with no fuss or delay. It subsequently transpired that his passport was …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 20 July 2012
Good morning It is now a mere one week until the start of the 2012 Olympics. Last week I featured an article ‘London’s Olympic Sized Mess’ which chronicled many of the problems surrounding the staging …
More – Much More – Olympics Mess and Misery
Will it be the most challenging Olympics in living memory – but not for the competitors; rather, for the people ordinarily resident in and around the city hosting the games? London’s staging of the Olympic …
Google’s Amateurishly Launched Nexus 7 – Our Hands-On Review
Google is a curious mix of extremely clever alongside naively stupid. It for sure understands most there is to know about internet searching and how to monetize that service, but it has tripped over its …
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Tablet Screen Size – Was Steve Jobs Right?
Note : This is a follow up article, building on the points in our earlier article when the Nexus 7 was first announced and adding further commentary based on using the Nexus 7 alongside an …
Weekly Roundup Friday 13 July 2012
Good morning It’s a Black Friday today. Superstition holds this to be an unlucky day for traveling, so be careful out there. I opened last week’s newsletter eulogizing Andy Griffith (which one reader mildly disagreed …
London’s Olympic Sized Mess
A strange unreality descends, once every four years, on some part of the globe, infecting its political leaders with fevered delusions and impossible visions. This is, of course, the outcome of the modern day Olympic …
Weekly Roundup Friday 6 July 2012
Wednesday saw our annual celebration of America and all that makes us so great and good. This year the sum of America’s greatest and best was sadly diminished by the death of Andy Griffith, of …
