Weekly Roundup, Friday 8 March 2019
Good morning Happy International Women’s Day. I’ve been struggling this week to write a review on what, in the opinion of many main stream media reviewers, have now become the very best set of noise […]
2019
Are the Sony WH-1000X M3 Wireless Noise Canceling Headphones Better than the Bose QC35 II?
Although other makes/models of noise canceling headphones have at times drawn almost even with market-leader Bose, and some have surpassed their sound quality, none have ever exceeded the noise canceling capabilities of the Bose products.
Weekly Roundup, Friday 1 March 2019
Good morning Another week with a disrupted review – the product I was testing abjectly failed at the thing it was primarily intended for. To be fair, I have to give the manufacturer a chance
Does Rolls-Royce Really Want to Make Jet Engines?
Coming from an English-heritage country (New Zealand), Rolls-Royce has always been a brand with special magic to me, and to most other people of English extraction. In decades now well past, the name Rolls-Royce was
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Google Fi – A Transformation of Cell Phone Service
Google has profoundly changed many parts of our world. Its eponymous search engine, of course. Its Gmail service, which now dominates the email field the same way Google’s search engine dominates search. Other things are
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 22 February 2019
Good morning There’s more craziness this week than I can remember for a long while, and much of it gleefully commented on in the last couple of items below. I prepared a review of a
Weekly Roundup, Friday 15 February 2019
Good morning It has been an interesting week this week, and there are two feature articles following this morning’s newsletter. One is a farewell tribute to one of my favorite planes. Ungainly and ugly? Probably,
The Airbus A380 : RIP
Airbus surprised no-one, but saddened many, with its announcement on Thursday this week that it was ending the A380 program. It would build 17 more planes (14 for Emirates and 3 for ANA) and then
California’s Downsized High Speed Rail Plan
Governor Gavin Newsom announced, in his “State of the State” address on Tuesday 12 Feb, that he was sort of cancelling the state’s long-standing project (started in 2008, and discussed for a long time prior)
Weekly Roundup, Friday 8 February 2019
Good morning Lots of touring news this morning. Our new Loire Valley Land Cruise in September has proven to be popular, with three people already signed up and another four expected to be joining them
Weekly Roundup, Friday 1 February 2019
Good morning While there are no attachments to this morning’s nice long newsletter, that is due to a quirk in how these emails work. I’ve actually been very busy this last week preparing the pages
Weekly Roundup, Friday 25 January 2019
Good morning I hope you had a nice long weekend. I spent much of mine listening to music – through a new pair of Bluetooth equipped noise cancelling headphones. Although I love technology and gadgets,
