Weekly Roundup Friday 2 September 2011
Good morning Very quickly to start, I’ve a final extension on the special lifetime memberships that make our upcoming Front Sight defensive handgun course so affordable. You’ll need to contact me prior to the …
Good morning Very quickly to start, I’ve a final extension on the special lifetime memberships that make our upcoming Front Sight defensive handgun course so affordable. You’ll need to contact me prior to the …
Good morning I was catching up with some articles on Frommers.com and came across one on the subject of tipping hotel chambermaids. Arthur Frommer says ‘A tip of $20 seems to me a minimum for …
Good morning To my surprise, my mentioning of the IBM Selectric typewriter’s 50th anniversary last week evoked a lot of comments and memories from readers. It is amazing how a plain piece of technology has …
Good morning Happy birthday this week to the IBM Selectric typewriter (pictured, left). First released (obviously enough) in 1961 (on 23 July), the ‘golfball’ typewriter with dual pitch and a correcting ribbon was an enormous …
Good morning The big news of the week was Wednesday’s announcement by American Airlines of their order for 460 new planes, which I quickly analyzed and sent out a commentary on immediately thereafter. If you …
Good morning It has been a week of steady posting from me to you – at least, it has been for those of you who receive realtime or daily updates, as opposed to the weekly …
Good morning and Good Friday – Happy Easter It has been a busy week, starting off with taking a fascinating but intense weekend course that saw me emerging out the other end as an NRA …
Good morning We've been struggling with definitions this week. On the global stage, there's a new war that's maybe not a war; closer to home, there was the reader survey from last week – are …
Good morning And hello from Brussels, where I'm writing this on Thursday evening. Pictured is the 'Atomium' structure which has sort of become an iconic image for Brussels. It was built for the 1958 World …
Just over a year ago, I wrote a four-part series about How to Use Priceline to get the Lowest Possible Hotel Rates. Last week I was using the techniques and strategies outlined in this comprehensive …
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British Airways has introduced one of its fairly typical winter sales for travel to London, with reasonably generous airfares combined with one free night of hotel (for one person traveling alone) or two free nights …
Lots more train news this week, most of it good, some of it surprising. Eurostar have announced a £700 million (about US$1.15 billion) program investing in new train sets that will go even faster than …