Weekly Roundup, Friday 31 July 2020
Good morning My main computer has been running hotter and hotter over the last while, to the point where I was sometimes having to limit the load on it for fear of temperatures becoming way …
Good morning My main computer has been running hotter and hotter over the last while, to the point where I was sometimes having to limit the load on it for fear of temperatures becoming way …
As predicted, we passed through 150,000 deaths in the US on Monday morning, and now, Thursday afternoon, are already up to 155,285. Yes, that’s a rate of over 1,000 a day. I am always …
Did you vote in Friday’s regular newsletter survey? If you did, thank you very much. If you didn’t, I’m repeating it below, and would much appreciate you sending in your thought about this concept. …
Good morning I had mentioned, a month or so back, that I’m developing a new concept in vacation accommodation (let me know if you’d like to get an investor introduction piece about the project). …
I was talking to the owner of a small tavern/resort in an Idaho country town earlier this week, and asked him sympathetically how badly his business had been impacted by the virus. His answer …
I love books and I love gadgets. So, unsurprisingly, I rushed excitedly to get one of the first ever Amazon Kindle ereaders when it was released on November 19, 2007. The reader, and Amazon’s backing …
Worldwide, the count of virus deaths passed through 600,000 yesterday. Almost a quarter of all deaths have been in the US. Global cases also passed through 14 million total on Friday, and now on …
Good morning One of the most interesting things, to me, of the last week was the release of an MIT study showing what the risk is of catching the coronavirus on a plane. They …
Shock/horror headlines today claimed that 45% of the counties in the US are seeing an “uncontrollable” spread of the Covid-19 virus. Happily, that is a total nonsense of a headline. To be a bit …
Portable emergency solar panels seem like a good idea, but…. A reader wrote in asking if she could create an emergency backup power source for her apartment with some solar panels. This is an interesting …
Do you like wearing a mask? I surely don’t. They are uncomfortable and awkward to wear and use. The thing I like the least is the way a mask blocks much of a person’s …
Good morning I hope you had a great 4 July. This year was probably the strangest and saddest of the 35 such experiences I’ve had since moving to the US in 1985. We are a …