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Month: July 2020

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Hobbies

Car review: Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid Auto 2018

31st July 2020 Philthetestmanager 0

Following on from the excellent article by AWS the other Friday on a VW thing, I thought I would do one on the car I have just purchased.  Maybe some of you could write something, [more…]

Computing

Testing, Testing, Testing!

31st July 2020 Lugosi 0

I am a techno-luddite when it comes to mobile phones. “I just want it to ring when someone calls me and I want to call other people”. When I had a trip planned to Colorado [more…]

Arts

Ice Station Zero

30th July 2020 Going Postal 0

Idly browsing the Interweb the other day, I came across this BBC article on the terrible outlook for the ice sheet around the North Pole: Arctic Summers to be ice-free by 2013. Well worth a [more…]

Mathematics

Some More Head Scratching Data

30th July 2020 Godfrey Bloom 0

Apologies for returning to Covid-19 for examples of data oddities. But the situation coughs up, pardon the phrase, more anomalies every day. If Boris had read statistics not classics he would have spotted them. I [more…]

Cooking

Atomic Buffalo Turds

29th July 2020 Captain Black 0

The time has come to introduce the uninitiated Puffins of this world to one of the best kept secrets of the culinary world:  Atomic Buffalo Turds (ABTs).  Don’t ask me how they got their name [more…]

America

Why is Portland Like Portland?

29th July 2020 Always Worth Saying 1

If Chicago is “The Windy City”, New York, “The Big Apple”, New Orleans, “The Big Easy” and Reno, Nevada, “The Biggest Little City in the World”, then Portland, Oregon, is “A Big Retirement Home for [more…]

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Fiction

Joe Malone, Part Seventy

28th July 2020 Going Postal 0

Ch 70 – Taking back control. Sandra Batkawayo was waiting for me outside the door. “The studio is this way, Mister Malone.” He began striding off down the deep piled corridor. He was a big [more…]

19th Century

I never meant to write a novel

28th July 2020 Tachybaptus 0

Today A Bear’s Diary is published as a hardback. It has been available as an ebook for a couple of months. It’s a shortish novel at 65,000 words, decorated with old engravings which give it [more…]

Human Interest

Gtech HyLite model SCV100 – product review

27th July 2020 Going Postal 0

‘I started Gtech to create sensible, easy-to-use products, which do a great job’ Nick Grey – inventor and owner of Gtech. Well, I think Mr Grey has achieved that in this case. Read on to [more…]

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