Weekly Roundup, Friday 8 July 2016
Good morning I hope you had a wonderful July 4th, with plenty of fireworks, food, and fellowship. It seems the nation’s transportation systems generally coped with the stresses, about as well as could be hoped. […]
2016
P/T or F/T Opportunity to Work with David
Some of you have already know that I’ve been hard at work, the last 18 months or more, on an interesting new startup. It is now about to launch a new and very distinctive type of
Travel Insider Readers Totally Contradict AHLA Claims
In our last newsletter, we asked you to share your thoughts and preferences about hotel resort fees. The results were interesting, and in total conflict to the claims of the American Hotel & Lodging Association
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 24 June 2016
Good morning The last week has seen Britain’s referendum on staying in or leaving the EU reach its culmination with the vote yesterday and decision in favor of leaving the EU, although by the slimmest
Why You’ll Never Fly in an Electric Plane
We all love hybrid and electric vehicles, right? Those alluring claims of 100 miles per ‘gallon equivalent of petrol’ (whatever that actually means), the extraordinary sportiness of the Tesla S, or the sturdy economy of
Weekly Roundup, Friday 10 June 2016
Good morning A shortish newsletter today. The main purpose of it is to convey the following article, which makes for dismaying reading. Congress – ever sensitive to the varying gusts of the political wind –
Congress Unanimously Votes to Solve TSA Security Line Delays
Wow – there’s a headline full of red flags. “Congress” – we’re off to a bad start. “Unanimously” – anything Congress does unanimously has to be something so facile and trivial as to be impossible of
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 3 June 2016
Good morning Another summer has semi-officially started, and right at the point where many of us are getting ready for our summer vacations, the State Department in its infinite wisdom has decided to issue a
New Zealand’s Amazing – and Essential – Food Revolution
This is the first part of a series on food in New Zealand. A second and possibly subsequent parts will showcase some of the best and most distinctive of New Zealand dishes. When you consider
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 27 May 2016
Good morning If you’re lucky, you’ll be going somewhere nice for Memorial Day Weekend. If you’re very lucky, you’ll be staying home. Travel – on the roads and in the air – is projected to
Emergency Power for your Phone
The leapfrog match between the ever-increasing power requirements of our smartphones and the ever-increasing power capacities of their batteries – overlaid with a desire to make phones and therefore their batteries ever smaller – means
Weekly Roundup, Friday 20 May 2016
Good morning Was this the week when every passenger’s frustration boiled over, and we spontaneously all resolved not to accept two hour (and sometimes longer!) waits to go through security any more? If it wasn’t,
