High-capacity serial ATA (SATA) disk drives are now a mainstay in many storage systems and make it feasible for almost any company to obtain a storage system with terabytes of capacity at a reasonable cost. Yet these systems reveal a specific, known deficiency of SATA disk drives that demand companies exercise caution as to what [...]

When Venetia Hill got the phone call from the organisers of the Cuisine New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awards, she immediately assumed the worst: maybe her entry in the hobbyist category had gone mouldy while being couriered to Auckland from her Motueka home, and wasnt fit for judging.
But it was quite the opposite. The call [...]

We are battlers in the sport of cricket on a world scale %26mdash; its hard to argue that point. Hope and maybe even a little bit of denial has forever remained entrenched among New Zealand cricket supporters since the day we joined test status.
Supporters are let down time after time with top-order collapses and it [...]

On the night train from Delhi to Kolkata, trying to persuade myself to sleep, I started to count the Indian railway journeys I’d made. I reached 100 or so and then gave up. So many journeys, so many early-morning cigarettes smoked over tea [...]