Weekly Roundup, Friday 25 May, 2018
Good morning My 1500 mile road trip last week was a bit tiring, but also interesting. In particular, I had many hours to think about many things, and one of the thoughts I had, while […]
2018
What If I Drove to Montana in a Tesla
I’m as keen a convert to electric cars as anyone could ever be, when it comes to driving them locally around town, in situations where each day you’ll never exceed their built-in range limit. What
The TSA’s New Revenge Watch-List
News has leaked out that the TSA has now started keeping its own special ‘watch list’ of people it doesn’t like. Like so much to do with the TSA, this watch-list is more charade than
Weekly Roundup, Friday 11 May 2018
Good morning Spring is in full fling, and I hope your summer, due to officially start in just a few weeks on Memorial Day, is shaping up to be a great one. But, please, cast
Using an Amazon Echo
We’ve had a love-hate relationship with our Amazon Echo devices since getting our first back in 2016. We love what they do, but we hate that we don’t know more about how to use them
Weekly Roundup, Friday 4 May, 2018
Good morning A couple of articles for you this week after tonight’s newsletter, one serious and one not quite so serious. The serious article was a struggle to write. For some time now I’ve been
The Country So Special That Other Countries Try to Hide it Away
Have a look at this map of the world. Like many other maps, it omits one very special country – a country rated as the most honest in the entire world by Transparency International, and
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Electric Car Sales : A Tale of Hype and Hope
If ever there was a promising enormous revolution in passenger vehicle technologies, surely it must be that offered by electric power. An electrically powered vehicle offers huge benefits in a number of areas. It is
Weekly Roundup, Friday 27 April, 2018
Good morning Spring is definitely in the air. Here in Seattle, with temperatures spilling into the 70s, huge headlines proclaimed Tuesday’s temperature to be the hottest since temperature records were first started (the clear subtext
The Difference Between a Good Pilot and a Hero Pilot
The incident last week when a Southwest Airlines plane had an uncontained engine failure was massively exacerbated by the astonishing embellishment of having a passenger half sucked out of a window that shattered, before being
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Weekly Roundup, Black Friday 13 April, 2018
Good morning Have you done your taxes yet? Or at least filed for an extension. If the former, I hope you’ve a nice big refund coming your way, and indeed, if you are so fortunate,
Should Homeland Security (and the Airlines) Hire Facebook and Google?
The news over the last few weeks has been all about Facebook – how much it knows about us, how it knows things about us that we’ve not told it, how it finds out things
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