on the road

June 2011

I like having a weather gadget on my desktop. When the simpleton’s version of the Windows 7 weather gadget stopped showing me the little sunshine icon in the top left for the city in which I live, I was annoyed.

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More TSA shit, if you’ll pardon the pun.

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I finally moved into the 21st Century and replaced my flip-phone with an HTC Desire HD. Incroyable!

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Tell me why, dummies: Mechanics are not screened. Caterers are not screened. Cabin cleaners are not screened. Baggage loaders and apron workers are not screened. They are subject to fingerprinting, a 10-year criminal background investigation and cross-checking against terror watch lists, but they receive only occasional, random on-the-job checks. Many employees say they have gone [...]

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