Good morning I hope your Good Friday is off to a good start, and your Easter Weekend will be spent most pleasantly, including, for the Christians among our readers, some extra time pondering and being thankful for our salvation through the sacrifice of Jesus. If this was New Zealand, we’d all be on holiday today […]
Good morning An unplanned, but interesting (I hope) attached article today, being a review of a third emergency car battery “jump-start” unit. Unlike the two reviewed last week, this one works well and I can recommend it with only a very little bit of “maybe” appended to the recommendation. I’m so pleased to no longer […]
Good morning I hope you had a great April Fool’s Day on Monday. This year, more than previously, I found myself struggling to tell the jokes from reality. For example, this story about a tiny town in Denmark with only 7,000 people being the location for a new 1050 ft tower, to become the tallest […]
Good morning Did you wake up to notice anything different in the world this morning? No, neither did I. It was to be today that saw Britain leave the EU, subsequent to its referendum to do so in June 2016. Notwithstanding almost three years to plan, prepare, and actually implement their departure, they are in […]
Good morning “I’m sorry, I’m having difficulty understanding that right now. Please try again later.” That was the regular response, during the last nightmarish couple of weeks, to my regular morning request “Alexa, turn on David Bed Light”. An intermittent problem with my new Netgear router often meant it had frozen overnight, so when it […]
Good morning Wow, what a wild and crazy week this one has been, with the added dimension, for me personally but I trust not for you, of (hopefully just) experiencing another kidney stone event. These seem to be occurring with increasing frequency. The extraordinarily dysfunctional nature of Obamacare was driven home to me. When it […]
This question, very similar to “how high is up” has been much in people’s thoughts this week with the Boeing 737 MAX and its two recent crashes. In an interesting duality that reflects how public debate has not flourished in the social media era, there was first a clamor of people demanding all 737 MAX […]
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 cancelling headphones out there. As longer time readers know, I’ve been reviewing noise cancelling headphones pretty much right since Day […]
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 to respond – maybe it is a bad unit, for example. However, there’s lot we do have this week, more […]
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 the sine qua non of highest quality, highest reliability, ultra-prestigious motor vehicles, to a degree that Cadillac has never equaled […]
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 fun little gadget that I’d got prior to Christmas, and was going to present it to you this morning. But […]
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, although that enormous wing impresses me every time I see it. A delight to fly in, as a passenger? Most […]