Friday evening’s theft of an airplane was almost as strange as the reactions that inevitably followed. Let’s first talk about the facts of what happened, then move on to the ‘expert’ commentaries and opinions. What Actually Happened At about 7.30pm on Friday 10 August 2018 a Horizon Air employee used a pushback tractor to move […]
Good morning I hope your summer is progressing positively. I’m spending much of mine inside, wrestling with computer problems. A hardware failure was bad enough, but during the recovery process there was a brief period of unavoidable vulnerability while opening the server to the internet to download OS patches, and the server almost instantly became […]
We’ve had a love-hate relationship with our Amazon Echo devices since getting our first back in 2016. We love what they do, but we hate that we don’t know more about how to use them better, and we get annoyed at ourselves when we forget the appropriate voice commands to do the things we wish […]
If ever there was a promising enormous revolution in passenger vehicle technologies, surely it must be that offered by electric power. An electrically powered vehicle offers huge benefits in a number of areas. It is a more responsive and more fun car to drive – oh yes, and easier to drive as well. It not […]
Good morning You may have seen the story of the woman killed by a self-driving car in Tempe, AZ on Sunday. Any unnecessary death is of course regrettable, but the biggest tragedy of this unfortunate incident may be that this accident slows down and delays the continued development and deployment of self-driving vehicle capabilities. With […]
Good morning Our Frontsight experience was enjoyed by all who attended over the last weekend, and most of the participants plan to return for another experience in the future. While the men stoically plinked away, including one gentleman who refused to let his bad leg and cane interfere, I do want to call out the […]
Good morning First of all, a word about our touring schedule for the year. We are starting to get down to the wire for the Triple K tour to Kiev, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan this May, so if you’re thinking of coming, please let me know. Also, strangely, this year there’s not yet a lot of […]
Good morning It was another interesting week, some of which is reported for you below. In addition, I’m adding three stand-alone articles. One observes how Disney amusement park ticket prices have been going up at a rate averaging three times that of inflation for the last five years, and almost always, going back as far […]
No, I’ve not sold out to the ‘dark side’ and I’m not about to suggest you pay ten-times more than normal pricing for a/v and speaker cables that offer nothing more than regular cables, other than an overdose of manufacturer’s hype. But during my recent very detailed testing of portable power packs, I came to […]