Weekly Roundup Friday 26 October 2012
Good morning Another busy week, with Apple now officially announcing both the widely anticipated iPad mini – a device that is getting mixed reviews, and also surprising with a new iPad too, albeit only with …
Good morning Another busy week, with Apple now officially announcing both the widely anticipated iPad mini – a device that is getting mixed reviews, and also surprising with a new iPad too, albeit only with …
Good morning Was the newsletter hacked by the Koreans last week? And if so, would it have been the North or South Koreans who did the hacking? Whatever the reason, a strange error crept into …
Good morning Our wonderful – and wonderful value – 2012 Christmas Markets cruise, announced last Friday, has of course met with a positive response. We’ve one couple signed up already (they’ve been river cruising with …
Good morning Thanks for the various suggestions on hard drive backup/recovery strategies. I’ve been tied up with, ahem, completing the recovery of my hard drive, so haven’t replied to them all yet, but will try …
Good morning The Olympics are now in full swing in London. Well, although the swing might be full (whatever that actually means) there are two things that are decidedly not full. The Olympic stadiums, and …
Most people on most cruises are middle aged and older. Any time you get a thousand or more middle aged and elderly people together for a week or so, simple unavoidable statistics dictate the likelihood …
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Good morning It is now a mere one week until the start of the 2012 Olympics. Last week I featured an article ‘London’s Olympic Sized Mess’ which chronicled many of the problems surrounding the staging …
Good morning I hope you got to see some of the pomp, pageantry and circumstance of Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee this last weekend, which was a special four day holiday in the United Kingdom. …
Good morning We’ve an interesting mix of stories this week, and a couple of other articles added to the main week’s newsletter, too. Good news for most of us with the countdown to next weekend’s …
Good morning Happy 75th birthday to the Golden Gate Bridge, which opened in May 1937. It has become one of the world’s most instantly recognizable bridges, and is approaching its two billionth vehicle crossing sometime …
Good morning I had another burst of intense self doubt earlier this week. Are airlines really as stupid as I say they are? Or am I missing something so thunderingly obvious as to imply I’m …
Good morning It is a strange and semi-random process, deciding what to write about. I started off Thursday this week with some half written materials for publication today, and then during the morning, stumbled across …