Weekly Roundup, Friday 7 June 2019
Good morning If you are receiving this in the form of the once weekly newsletter, you can hopefully see that our redesigning continues apace (the daily and instant versions have yet to be updated). This …
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 10 May 2019
Good morning Many thanks to everyone who sent their opinions in on whether they’d be comfortable flying the Boeing 737 MAX once it returns to service. As promised, your answers have been collated, and I’ve …
Preserving and Restoring Your Car Battery
While much focus these days is on new battery types; generally the most expensive investment in batteries we currently make is with the decidedly old fashioned lead-acid battery in our vehicles. The technology dates back …
Weekly Roundup, Good Friday 19 April 2019
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 …
Solving Amazon’s Fake Review Problem
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 …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 12 April 2019
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 …
An Emergency Car Battery Starter That Actually Works
Last week we reported on two small rechargeable batteries that claimed they could be used to jumpstart a car with a dead battery. One of them utterly failed to do so, and the other one …
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 5 April 2019
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 …
An Emergency Battery/Starter for your Car
We’ve all had a dead battery surprise us in our car. There’s nothing worse than when you’re running late, you get into your car, attempt to start it, and instead of the engine happily springing …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 29 March 2019
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 …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 22 March 2019
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 …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 8 March 2019
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 …