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Travelling Offline: May 2011
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Off-topic ramblings of an online travel editor. Your first encounter with a destination icon. RunawayJuno has written an excellent post today about a child's excitement on their first flight. She asks the question "do you. Remember your first time? I don't, but it reminded me of a couple of other travelling firsts. I remember both having a huge impact on me. I guess the same must happen when people encounter their first London bus, red pillar box, wild kangaroo, Tibetan monk or Canadian mountie. The puri...
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Travelling Offline: And so, the Age of the West declines & the Age of the East dawns
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Off-topic ramblings of an online travel editor. And so, the Age of the West declines and the Age of the East dawns. Sorry, indulge me. I'm headlining in portentous MMO gamespeak! I've been reading the 2013 predictions. For the online MMO game industry in 2013 from Massively. Staff, and it highlights a trend that I've been aware off for some time. But two things, of varying importance, have changed: China ( neighbours) is on the rise and Generation Z. Although maybe not as quickly as predicted ( MVC 2012.
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Travelling Offline: In Future Your Car Won't Work If Its Paperwork Is Out Of Date
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Off-topic ramblings of an online travel editor. In Future Your Car Won't Work If Its Paperwork Is Out Of Date. I'm just indulging in some blue skies thinking, knowing full well that somebody on an advisory panel at the Dept of Transport will have already been here! Here come the forward thinking. The latest and next generation vehicles are/will be mobile Internet devices in their own right, with their own IP numbers. Like the Chevy Volt. OK, drawbacks and dangers. We're not trying to penalise honest moto...
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Travelling Offline: April 2015
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Off-topic ramblings of an online travel editor. Lib Dems - Pioneers, Victims and Heroes. I know I'm pretty much the only Lib Dem supporter left in the western hemisphere, but I'm not surprised. It's not their fault but I don't think the general public have really understood the significance of the last election. It was the first in living memory. To end up in deadlock and result in a coalition. For us, the voters, it was new and interesting - even, possibly, exhilarating. Through it, to the thinly restra...
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Travelling Offline: November 2011
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Off-topic ramblings of an online travel editor. Thank God for the Archbishop of Canterbury. Now there is something I truthfully never ever expected to hear come from my lips! But they get it. They understand the two TOTALLY CRUCIAL changes that have to be made to our financial system in order to avoid another full-scale global financial meltdown and all that might come with it (including conflict, which is why I expect they are so concerned). That's why I despair every time some moron in the media refers...
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Travelling Offline: April 2011
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Off-topic ramblings of an online travel editor. It's been an interesting few days here in the Asturias region of northern Spain. And how the art of cheese-making by hand is being taught by shepherds in a purpose built 'school house' in the mountainous Covadonga National Park. While travelling from place to place in the El Transcantabrico Gran Lujo. A brand new luxury train launching next month. All the time I've been thinking "ooh, X would love this! Wave your hands in the air. I have a prediction for you.
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Travelling Offline: Customer Services as it should be
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Off-topic ramblings of an online travel editor. Customer Services as it should be. People are always quick, because they are frustrated and motivated, to write and post about the times when companies and organisation get it wrong, so I thought I'd try and redress a little balance by highlighting when it goes right. In this case the mighty Sony UK. A week ago my 17-year-old son's Sony Viao. Laptop broke. The screen went blank and refused to display anything - a bit of a crisis for a Generation Z. Member, ...
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Travelling Offline: May 2012
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Off-topic ramblings of an online travel editor. It's not an "aircraft carrier" if you can't fly one of these from it. It's just a 'Landing Support Ship'. Since WW2 we've rarely given our armed forces the equipment they needed. Just the duff gear that provided heaps of money for BAE in return for a few, often short-lived, jobs in MPs' constituencies. So the plan was to equip the carriers with the hugely complicated and expensive Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) version of the new Joint Strike F...
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Travelling Offline: September 2014
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Off-topic ramblings of an online travel editor. Hell hath no fury like 59m people scorned. So, it turns out there is a chance that 5.3 million Scots (well, technically if the referendum is close, somewhere around 2.7m Scots) may tell the rest of the UK that the marriage is over. I wonder if they have any idea how that will play out in the short term? Like any marriage, when one partner suddenly announces they want a divorce, there is real shock and hurt. Multiplied by 59m people, that's a lot of pain.
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Travelling Offline: March 2013
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Off-topic ramblings of an online travel editor. Customer Services as it should be. People are always quick, because they are frustrated and motivated, to write and post about the times when companies and organisation get it wrong, so I thought I'd try and redress a little balance by highlighting when it goes right. In this case the mighty Sony UK. A week ago my 17-year-old son's Sony Viao. Laptop broke. The screen went blank and refused to display anything - a bit of a crisis for a Generation Z. Member, ...
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