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

Monday, April 29, 2013

Time Warner Cable going west

Something has gone wrong with the cable up north of the Notch. First the TV just went black. After it came back it was all fuzzy, sound w...

Technical assistance or radicalization?

TV news keeps talking about technical assistance in bomb making for the Boston bombers. Interesting and all, but to my way of thinking, not...

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Idling Firefox is writing to the hard drive

I wonder what. With Antique Laptop powered up, XP running, Firefox 20.0.1 active, and laptop just sitting there, no one running it, I see c...

Chemical weapons and red lines in Syria

Why does killing with poison gas rate more Obama rhetoric than killing with anything else. Assad in Syria has been killing his opposition ...

Saturday, April 27, 2013

The Economist trashes Maggie Thatcher

In the letters section of this week's Economist magazine we have all the letters expressing various hostilities to former and recently d...

Signs of Spring in New Hampshire

Spring might actually happen this year. It was 60 here, snow is melted out except up on Cannon ski trails, and the yard sale signs were out...

Friday, April 26, 2013

Terrorists vs Freedom Fighters

Tennessee parents are objecting to a high school "textbook" that asks "Is bombing an Israeli pizzeria terrorism or a legitima...

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