Weekly Roundup Friday 24 January 2014
Good morning Another wintry week of weather disasters for the North American airline network and its passengers. A great example of your taxpayer dollars, not at work. It sure is enough to encourage you to …
Good morning Another wintry week of weather disasters for the North American airline network and its passengers. A great example of your taxpayer dollars, not at work. It sure is enough to encourage you to …
To help better explain what you would see, do, enjoy and experience in Queenstown, we’ve added two more pages to the Queenstown section of our website. In addition to the general page about Queenstown, there …
Good morning Continuing our theme of the last few weeks about slowing airplane innovation, happy belated birthday to the first ever pressurized passenger plane, the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, which first took to the air on …
We’ve written before about the tiny Roku video streaming devices, primarily in the context of being a full featured way of getting Netflix and Amazon Prime video streaming from the internet to your television/video screen. …
Another Thousand Reasons to Buy a Roku Video Streaming Device Read More »
Good morning I do hope the cold weather hasn’t affected your week too severely, and that yours weren’t among the 13,000+ flights cancelled during the earlier part of the week. There’s a sad inevitability to …
Okay, so the Hollywood studios have agonized over being killed off by home electronics many times in the past. Way back when VHS and Beta taping first came out, they sued to keep the technology …
Will Home Video Finally Cause the Demise of the Movie Theater? Read More »
Good morning A very happy new year to you. I hope your Christmas and New Year celebrations were appropriate – and you can be the best judge of what ‘appropriate’ allows and/or requires. May 2014 …
New Zealand is unquestionably one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and compresses a wider range of scenic splendor and natural beauty into its tiny size than you’d normally find in countries tens …
New Zealand Epicurean Extravaganza Tour, October 2014 Read More »
There have been several aviation milestones during the last week or so, most notably the centenary of the first ever passenger flight. Aviation has changed beyond even the wildest imagination of the pilot and passenger …
The Twilight Zone of Stalled Airplane Development Read More »