I have been following the case for sunspots over the past 6 – 9 months, writing about it a number of times. Well it is time for an update. NASA’s Dr. Tony Philips, who runs Spaceweather.com said: Where have all the sunspots gone? As of yesterday, March 21st, the sun has been blank on 85% [...]
I have lost a lot of respect for the BBC over the past couple of years. Their journalistic integrity has taken a number of high profile hits and specifically anything relating to the “environment” needs to be taken with a grain of salt. So I was interested when I saw a post about this expedition [...]
I wouldn’t have guessed it, but Jaguar and Buick are the two most reliable car brands. Strange days for Japanese makers, especially in light of consumer perception that Toyota (deserved) and Honda (not as deserved) are high quality manufacturers. Jaguar and Buick surged to the top of J.D. Power and Associates’ closely watched vehicle dependability [...]
For those that have been paying close attention to the past few months on R4NT, you’ll notice a distinct shift to featuring wine quite regularly. With that we’ve noticed an interesting service gap that we’d decide to take a stab at. I’m not going to spill the beans entirely, but you can watch our presentation [...]
It is one year until the Vancouver 2010 Olympics kick off. And while I was shut out on my quest to get tickets (put $1800 pp of ticket requests into the lottery and didn’t receive 1 ticket) I won’t be putting the Olympics on the ban list. In fact, over the next 12 months, there [...]
