Weekly Roundup Friday 31 May 2013
Good morning A big newsletter this week (5050 words!). I’ve been focusing on different aspects of Sri Lanka each week as part of explaining why it is our featured 2014 Travel Insider Tour, and hopefully …
Good morning A big newsletter this week (5050 words!). I’ve been focusing on different aspects of Sri Lanka each week as part of explaining why it is our featured 2014 Travel Insider Tour, and hopefully …
Good morning It’s Memorial Day Weekend – the traditional start of our summer. Yay. We’ve a slightly lighter compilation this week because you’re probably filled with thoughts of the long weekend, and indeed, one of …
Here’s a personal piece on a musical subject which is unabashedly nothing to do with travel, other than being music you would travel thousands of miles to hear, so please feel free to skip if …
How do you travel with your laptop? Some people have it in a protective sleeve inside a full-sized rollaboard, other people have it in a slimline bag that carries the laptop and almost nothing else. …
Good morning Our Sri Lanka tour continues to create lots of interest, and we’re now up to 15 people coming, all but three being repeat travelers who have enjoyed other Travel Insider tours in the …
In the past, we have regularly been fairly critical of Boeing’s 787 battery problems and indeed, much to do with the plane in general. Furthermore, we are uncomfortable with the FAA’s approved ‘fix’ that has …
News reports this week disclose that the merged American Airlines is projected to take in over a billion dollars a year in luggage fees. That’s assuming no further increases in luggage fees, and we both …
Good morning Well, here I am, wrestling with my new enemy – Windows 8. Polite words fail me when it comes to expressing the degree of total outrage I feel as I struggle to fight …
The traditional way to get sound from most iPod type MP3 players or iPhones has been to connect them either to headphones or via a docking station to some sort of powered speakers. Docking stations …
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Good morning Yes, there was no newsletter last week. Computers are funny things, aren’t they, and even though my increasingly aged Dell has had its motherboard replaced twice over the last year, and has a …
I’ve written about a hacker demonstrating his ability to remotely hack into an airplane flight management system in the last two weeks’ newsletters. His claims were controversial, but most of the controversy seemed to be …