Virage Corner update – new pics of the process for removing water from the fuel tank

In previous posts on Portability I’ve covered what I don’t like or don’t any more use.  This time we’ll look at something I actually do like, the Asus Transformer Android tablet.  Actually I more than like this thing, I’m pretty much permanently glued to it.  Without doubt it’s the best piece of technology I have used so far for portable…

In which after taking my Porsche 911 for a routine MOT (annual roadworthiness check) and service, I received a bill for £7600, or around $12,000 US. “I love my Aston”, I was wont to say, “but for sheer reliability and general go-down-to Tesco’s-in-it ease of driving give me the 911”.  I was wont to say…

The prior post was on the hardware of the interesting Asus Transformer Android tablet.  In this post I’ll cover the software.  I’m only going to do this from the perspective of what I actually do with the system, and I’ll therefore cover the apps which (after a lot of trial and error) work best for…

The saintly Paul Krugman (of whom more later) often helpfully tags his columns in the NYT with the descriptor “wonkish”, or “slightly wonkish”, signifying some more or less baffling piece of economics theory.  I like ‘wonkish’ more than say,  ‘nerdy’, probably because if Krugman likes it, then it’s good enough for me. I mention this…

This site has changed host location.  Nothing should change except performance.         After a year of exasperation I am changing my web hosting service.  Ever since I started my original site nearly 15 years ago, I have used US-based host systems.  This was originally because the hosting business was much more mature…

A while ago I wrote a series of posts on why I really didn’t care too much for Apple and it’s more recent products.  This was matter of complete indifference to Apple and most of the world along with them, but I wanted to be able to articulate explicitly why I found the whole Apple…