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Outfoxing the advert scams
You might have noticed in the news the kerfuffle about an English “inventor” having sold bomb-detecting devices to a number of governments and airport-security services around the world, principally in the Middle East. It turned out that the devices had been based on golf-ball detectors from the US and, depending on whose advice you took, [...]
Memories of Aberdeen in 1979
This month’s picture from my extensive archive of old photos (a stack of shoeboxes in the loft), shows the Queen’s Cross roundabout in Aberdeen in the summer of 1979. Not much has changed of the structure of Queen’s Cross. Drivers still take their lives in their hands as they enter what is one of northern [...]
Arctic Star medal long overdue
Those brave sailors who travelled on the Arctic Convoys to Russia during World War Two are to get a commemorative medal at last. The newly announced award of the Arctic Star is long overdue. Boys as young as 16 were among the 3,000 who died taking vital supplies to Murmansk (above) and Archangel on Russia’s [...]
What’s all the fuss about 4G?
I don’t know about you, but every time I hear all the breathless excitement about the coming wonders of 4G mobile-phone coverage and how it will transform British life, my pants begin to smoulder. Tech journalists, media spokesmen and politicians who ought to know better are clambering over each other to assure us that this [...]
Yes, chivalry is dead
A new survey for a clothing manufacturer has discovered that standards of public courtesy have slipped so badly in Britain that people are now automatically suspicious of strangers who approach offering help and demonstrating good manners. I can’t say I’m surprised. I was brought up well enough to hold doors open for people, but not [...]
Solar panels, the verdict
So that’s our 12-month experiment complete. A full calendar year living with a 16-panel solar array has thrown up several disappointments and a few surprises. The major disappointment is that the 3.95kW array, which was rated to produce 3600kW of free power, produced just 2243.4kW. Solar-panel suppliers will point you to the small print which [...]
Solar-panel report : November
Shortly after the end of every month throughout 2012, I am reporting on how an array of PV solar panels, owned by friends of ours, has performed in rural Aberdeenshire. This will be of limited interest to most of you, I know, but it fills a huge gap in the information available to prospective solar-panel [...]
No excuse for Sydney DJ idiots
It seems a sizeable minority has become vocal in support of the two Australian DJs whose hoax call to a London nurse appears to have led to the nurse’s suicide. The DJs’ supporters (and their boss, it must be said) have declared that it is grossly unfair to harangue the two presenters for “an innocent [...]
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In the May, 2013, issue, Norman Harper gets a telling-off for ignoring an old North-east Scottish superstition.
