Outdated but possibly interesting

Keeping this classic car running smoothly. The Virage can be had for relatively low prices, given it’s beauty (to the eye of this beholder) and rarity.  We are reasonably convinced that part of this can be ascribed to the apparent difficulty and expense of maintaining them.  Although when it goes, it goes very nicely, that…

The 5.3 litre V8 of the Virage is at the same time the essence and the Achilles heel of the car.  In the next post I’ll describe how we solved all the major problems with it (none of which had been diagnosed by Aston dealers and specialists).  In this one, I’ll cover a bit about the unit…

One sunny Friday morning in May 2002, your correspondent was returning from his weekly commute to New York. Pulling up outside our modest lair in South London in the taxi, I was surprised to find the parking space occupied by a huge, and beautiful gun-metal-grey sports car. On closer examination I saw this was an…

In this, the last post of the Transformer series, I’ll cover security issues, look at accessories to get for it, summarize my assessment of this tablet against the iPad2, and suggest which model to buy. Security.  This topic creates a number of conflicts for those who want to increasingly replace their PCs with a tablet. …

In prior posts I have covered the core browsing software for Android tablets as well as the soft and hard keyboards. In this post I will round things up by looking at the other software that I use on a day to day basis. I’ll continue to compare these apps to those available on the…

OK, enough with  the sentimentality already.  In the previous post I looked at the excellent Thumb keyboard software for the Transformer.  Now let’s look at the item that gives the product it’s name – the Transformer keyboard dock.  I covered the connectivity of this device 3 posts ago, so now I’ll cover the keyboard in use. Here’s a shot…