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Amazon are withdrawing support from their older Kindles on May 20th - Is my old kindle now defunct ?

  Amazon’s Kindle eReaders were ahead of their time when they first emerged in the late noughties, and were the first of the e-ink readers to hit the mass market. They have amassed a large following of dedicated reader fans since then, and have proven themselves robust and long-lasting.  There has been considerable concern voiced amongst the Kindle fan-base over the recent announcement   by Amazon that they are withdrawing support from their older devices from May 20th, such that readers will then no longer be able to use them to buy books from Amazon or access any books they have stored in the Amazon cloud. The range of devices affected is quite significant . To add insult to injury, Amazon also recently confirmed they are no longer allowing books purchased by subscribers and located in the Amazon cloud to be downloaded directly to their pcs. Why have they risked alienating their customer base by coming up with this 'double whammy' ? The excuse given is that “..the ...

The Iran War: What are Trump’s Options and How Bad Could It Get ?

  Donald Trump has a problem on his hands…and the USA as a nation now has an even bigger one.... Having been persuaded by Netanyahu, and his own White House advisors, that an all-out attack on the Iranian regime and its military wing, the IRGC, was the best solution to the ‘Iranian problem’, Trump was clearly expecting the war to be over in a matter of days. This still seems to be his 'default' position for any campaign he starts, despite the lessons already provided by the Ukraine war and the continued attacks by all 3 of the Iranian proxies in the face of the massive bombing campaigns meted out to all 3 since the October 7th HAMAS attack. All this does beg the question of how closely he is really being kept informed, and who is actually driving US foreign policy... Despite the intense battering his military and the Israelis have administered over a wide area of Iran in the last 5 weeks, and the cumulative and continuing decapitation of the old leadership in targeted Isr...

Could Your Site’s Google Search Entry Suddenly Disappear ? A Salutary Tale for the Unwary...

The short answer to what might be quite a disturbing question for many, sadly, is: Quite possibly..... Let me explain why. First, a bit of background. In common with many others, I first started posting to the net back in 2021 when the pandemic was still periodically keeping us legally under house arrest for up to 23 hours a day. Amongst other things, as someone with experience in the immunology field, I wanted to create a widely-available platform to share ideas on possible strategies for vaccine development that bypassed the over-lengthy conventional journal publication procedure. Since funding was also an issue, I decided to use Google’s Sites offering, which had been recently upgraded, and I knew could be used free of charge to set up a website. To cut a long story short, having set up a site successfully, and even written a manual to explain how others could do it, it took 1 year and 3 months to get my site indexed – you can see a history of this ridiculously long wa...