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Bose QC25
Noise Cancelling Headphones
Best value and best performing noise cancelling headphones, an almost essential item that will transform your air travel experience.
Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet
Our favorite is the 10" sized unit, but the 8" is worth considering if compactness is essential. Stunning value, and great for videos, music and books while traveling.
Briggs & Riley Suitcase
If you've ever had a suitcase break on a journey, you know how vital reliable luggage is and what a false economy cheap bags can be..
Luggage doesn't get any better than Briggs & Riley.
8-port USB Charger
For office, home, and traveling, this gets all your devices charged simultaneously and quickly.
Weekly Roundup, Friday 19 July 2019
Good morning The build up to the Apollo 11 celebrations is reaching a crescendo. As I type this, a website that is recreating the journey in real time tells me that at this moment, 50
Did Boeing Secretly “Bet the Company” Yet Again on an Airline Project?
Boeing announced today a $5.6 billion pre-tax charge in its second quarter for costs related to its B737 MAX problems. This followed the earlier $1 billion charge in its first quarter, and is based on
Our Recommendations for This Year’s Amazon Prime Day Deals
This year, Amazon’s Prime Day Promotion is spanning two days – Monday and Tuesday. It includes the usual range of “loss leaders” (most of which have already disappeared) just like a Black Friday at Walmart,
Weekly Roundup, Friday 12 July 2019
Good morning Our summer in Seattle is proving rather disappointing currently, to the point of instead of running the a/c, I’ve even had the heaters on intermittently. I hope your summer is better than mine,
Another Amazon Alexa Privacy Problem
Amazon continues to release more and more of their Alexa Echo units, and if you’re like us, you’re continuing to add them throughout your homes and offices. It requires a fair measure of confidence to
Weekly Roundup, Friday 5 July 2019
Good morning I hope your July 4 was great, and if your day was enlivened by the California ‘quake, the extra “celebration” didn’t cause any damage or disruption. I’d commented last week about what I