A Surprise Reappearance, November 13, 2022
Good afternoon/evening/morning I occasionally get emails from readers, wondering what is happening in my life. Apologies for not answering them – I keep meaning to do so, but, as you can now see, even a …
Good afternoon/evening/morning I occasionally get emails from readers, wondering what is happening in my life. Apologies for not answering them – I keep meaning to do so, but, as you can now see, even a …
Good morning Another new style of newsletter today, and again with help from Joe Brancatelli, who kindly provides the “meaty” stuff, below. It is becoming clear to me that there aren’t enough hours in the …
Good morning Sort of a newsletter this morning, thanks in largest part to kind help from Joe Brancatelli. And a few mainly personal comments from me to start. I’m just back from five days in …
Good morning It is definitely time to give you an update on the changes going on at my end of these emails. This is a personal update, not a normal newsletter. Last time I wrote, …
373 Supporters (up 1 from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning Last time I wrote, I mentioned I’m moving from Redmond (suburb of Seattle, WA) to Texas, where I’ll be …
372 Supporters (up 1 from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning As I’d anticipated, I was silent last week while down in Texas. But that does not mean …
Bluetooth has been very slow to achieve its promised potential. The concept was for a low-cost standard to be a wireless equivalent to a serial cable as a way to connect devices together. A Bluetooth …
371 Supporters (down 1 from last week) Target : 400 Please Join Here Good morning What a surreal week it has been, and I don’t just mean countries abandoning all Covid controls and …
I have a sense we’re watching history unfold at present. I’ve always wondered how major conflicts – world wars – really truly started, because they’ve always seemed irrational and avoidable, and surely sensible people …
Thoughts on Ukraine (and the World) 24 February 2022 Read More »
It is extraordinary to see the way that the people – the politicians – who bleated the loudest about “following the science” are now following it into strange places. For example, in England, the …
It was bad enough when airlines started charging for bags, and worse when they dropped the limit for a “standard” bag from 70lbs to 50lbs. But now some of the worst airlines are reducing …
Scotland has decided it will stop releasing Covid statistics showing the different hospitalization and death rates based on whether patients have been vaccinated or not. Public Health Scotland described the statistics as “very simple”, …