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 […]
Amazon complains theatrically that it is doing all it can to stop the flood of fake reviews that infest its site, but clearly the most casual of glances shows its feeble attempts to be almost entirely ineffectual. Indeed, its problem is even more wide-ranging that it appears at first glance, because, quite apart from anything […]
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 […]
After delays and failed/false starts in the past, today was the day Apple held a special launch event to announce various new subscription based streaming services. Although in many ways, Apple was one of the first to offer streaming with its iTunes service, it has surprisingly but thoroughly dropped the ball, seeing new services come […]
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 […]
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 […]