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

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Halliburton did it?

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Botched the cement job on BP's blowout well in the Gulf. Long article in the Wall St Journal. But some things are unclear. The Journa...

Where is the money coming from?

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The perennial political question once the subject drifts onto budget. US governments, local, state, and federal are in trouble. They are s...

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Terror comes by UPS

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A couple of packages, containing bombs, sent from Yemen, to a pair of synagogues in Chicago, have consumed more airtime than the World Serie...

Thursday, October 28, 2010

138 pages "Medicare and You"

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"This is the official U.S. government Medicare handbook". Came in the mail yesterday. Am I going to read 138 pages of gobbledy-g...

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Wikileaks and leakers Part II

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Wikileaks is right out there, making the world safe for democracy by publishing 400,000 secret US Army field reports. The reports, filed by...

Monday, October 25, 2010

Laptops on Airliners

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Atlantic magazine has an article about the difficulty of providing 120 volt AC power at each seat to charge passenger laptops. Clearly the...

Sunday, October 24, 2010

NPR does bait and switch

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Listening to the clock radio this morning, NPR did a piece that started out wishing for scientist's who can make science clear to non-sc...

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