History is repeating itself, and Amazon is not learning from its past mistakes. Amazon’s announcement of its long anticipated cell phone on Wednesday showed a phone with interesting features, but almost surely fatal weaknesses. One […]
Hi It has been a long time since I last wrote, and I wanted to give you a quick update. The good news is that I’m feeling very much better, so much so that I
This is the first part of a new series on digital music. Part two is here, stay tuned for more. There’s an interesting contradiction when we consider trends in listening to music compared to watching
Good morning I’d indicated last week that I expected to be out of town and possibly unable to send out a newsletter this week. Well, I got that half right. I am at home, but
Good morning A couple of happy birthday notes this week, the older first. It is 60 years ago since the Boeing 707 prototype first rolled out of its hangar. The 707 can be said to
Here’s an interesting article from the UK about hoteliers and restaurant owners complaining that they are being ‘blackmailed’ by patrons, who demand free meals, room upgrades, etc. If they are not given these things, the
It is either a very brave – or a very foolish – reporter who volunteers to write a story supporting high airline ticket prices and fees. You can decide whether this NY Times reporter is
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Good morning Happy birthday to Loch Ness monster. Although there are tales of monsters in Loch Ness dating back to the sixth century, the ‘modern’ monster was first ‘discovered’ in early May, 1933. Some people
As you probably know, the entire ‘conventional wisdom’ about the general area where MH370 is thought to have crashed is based on one single thing – analysis of the radio signals exchanged between an Inmarsat
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Did you notice, the last time you went to your local airport, that the signs outside the front of the terminal are getting emptier and emptier. It used to be there’d be signs above each
Good morning Happy birthday to BASIC. BASIC – the acronym for ‘Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code’ – was far from the world’s first programming language (you could have a lengthy argument about that because the
Last week I was writing about a wonderful new source of free eBooks (and I continue to get another free book, myself, most days), and as a prefatory part of that article, did a quick review/roundup
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