News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Is net neutrality ruining my broadband?

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Dunno about the rest of you, but broadband service on Time Warner Cable is going down hill for me. Used to be you clicked on a bookmark and...

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Katrina, 5th anniversery thereof

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Every one (NPR, NBC, WSJ, Fox, you name it) is doing a Katrina story. I watched Brad Pitt showing off new green houses with solar panels in...

Saturday, August 28, 2010

No wonder health care costs are high

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Opened all my junk mail this morning. It burns better if you open it before pitching in the fireplace. One piece was pushing hearing aids....

Friday, August 27, 2010

Thirty percent of BP personnel take the Fifth

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Today's Wall St Journal lists ten BP and Transocean executives and workers involved in the Gulf well blowout. At hearings into the disa...

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Slushbox

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It's been common knowledge for years that automatic transmissions cost you about 5% on gas mileage compared to a stick shift. T'oth...

Monday, August 23, 2010

Copyright

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Or, why downloading should be legal. Copyright is so important that the US Constitution has a special clause about it. "To promote th...

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Blago vs the prosecutors

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Looks like Blago wins. The prosecutor ought be fired. If you bring a high profile case, it better be a sound one. First mistake was to ch...

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