Tim Bray says (via Twitter): If you watch the storm trackers, you might get the impression that Gustav could both moderate and veer left of NOLA. That’d be good. Yes, indeed. As I write, there are varying reports of Gustav weakening to a Cat 3 then being expected to strengthen again to a 4 or 5. [...]
From the monthly archives:
August 2008
…you can’t keep a good man down. Do you remember New Cap Re? An Australian carrier that went down with all hands in spectacularly mucky circumstances some years over what was characterised as an “improper” contract involving Gen Re? Well, apparently not all hands went down–or at least not for too long. Paul Williams, deputy [...]
The Guardian reports on a Ryanair emergency landing which put 16 in hospital in Limoges. Most people, I think, while scared witless, would probably expect that every so often this sort of thing “just happens”. What is markedly less reassuring, somehow (though I can’t quite put my finger on why) is that few of the [...]
Good post and better comments from the Economist on how the free market may change business (esp. air) travel in the future. We are currently 45th in line to take off and running a bit late. However, our handsome pilot has just negotiated, for you, dear passenger, a private insurance waiver with a Nigerian E-Finance minister [...]
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[Lo-grade tech stuff follows. Pull ripcord now if it's not your thing]. I’ve had a thorny problem to deal with today, involving a case in the Philippines, where I had two strands of information: the first was what a party had said (over time) had happened; the second was what had actually happened, as ex [...]
Excellent LRB article this week from Michael Kare, “professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College”[1] all about the world’s continuing, in fact growing dependence on oil - “the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that global consumption will rise from 86.9 million barrels a day in 2008 to 94.1 million in 2013.” Professor Kare [...]
