Weekly Roundup, New Year’s Eve, 2021
366 Supporters (+1 from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning Are you ready for 2022? Do you feel you really got value for the year you spent in 2021? …
366 Supporters (+1 from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning Are you ready for 2022? Do you feel you really got value for the year you spent in 2021? …
Wow. While we may have been relaxing in the lull between Christmas and New Year, it has been a busy week for the virus, with astonishing – terrifying – new record numbers of new reported …
Did you treat yourself to a new 4K UHD HDR television set over the Christmas period? Or are you planning to do so with the after-Christmas/New Year sales that usually appear? If you do, there …
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It has been an unsurprisingly quiet few days since my last diary entry on Thursday night. As expected, we’ve not had any semblance of accurate Covid case data from the US on Friday, Saturday, or …
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365 Supporters (+1 from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning It has been a very Amazon-y type of week for me, and not altogether in a good way. An …
There have been some morsels of good news, albeit in a week filled with new record numbers of daily Covid cases being reported in assorted countries around the world, including the UK, and we here …
I’ve been interested in air quality issues for two reasons and so was attracted to this device. The first is due to forest fires – like other western states, Washington has its fair share of …
There continue to be wild statements flying in every direction about the Omicron variant and its implications. The words “irrational panic” spring to mind. Perhaps inappropriately, I’m finding myself more reassured than terrified about what …
364 Supporters (unchanged from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning I received the long-await huge Amazon Echo Show 15 Alexa screen device at the weekend. I wrote a review …
I was expressing surprise on Sunday about how it seemed that Omicron was disproportionately infecting people who had already been vaccinated. A reader wrote in to explain why that might be – due to a …
Amazon has struggled to extend its Alexa audio service into the realm of video. This latest product shows the struggle is ongoing and far from resolved. After introducing the first Echo (audio only) device …
The spread of the Omicron variant continues apparently unabated – as of Saturday, cases have been detected in 29 US states. If cases were reported in 29, it is a fair bet that unreported …