Flying: Not All 777s Are Equal
I spend a very long time Friday on a Continental flight back from London to Houston. Both flights, coming and going were on Boeing 777, which is a really nice airplane for the coach class traveler. The...
View ArticleBusiness Travel in 2008 vs Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
Since the turn of the year I’ve been getting around a bit. I’ve been to Austin TX, Cambridge UK, Chicago IL (twice), Indianapolis IN, and Philadelphia PA. In going to/from Chicago both trips were...
View ArticleSeeking Opinions: Netbooks
I suspect that there is a netbook in my near-term future. My travel to and from Toronto last week reinforced this sense. At three hours that flight is about as long as you’d want to be on a 50 seat...
View ArticleNotebooks, Netbooks & Tablets…Oh,My!
This post is inspired by the recent release of the HP Mini 5103. I’ve been carrying its predecessor since April, and meaning to share my recent experience with netbooks, especially in the light of the...
View ArticleAdvantage GSM Carriers: Simultaneous Voice & Data
Now that Verizon Wireless is getting traction with the iPhone 4 on their CDMA network AT&T is left trying to find ways of differentiating itself. While it’s too early to know how much of a...
View ArticleRant: American Auto-Makers Still Need a Clue
[Begin music: Beach Boys, “I Get Around”] Recent projects have had me in Chicago, Milwaukee, Washington DC and Nashville. Suffice it to say that over the past few months I’ve rented cars on several...
View ArticleGallery: The Doc Porter Museum Of Telephone History
Recently, my parents decided to pay us a visit. It was their way to escape the Canadian winter for a short while, and see how their most distant son lives. Amongst the many things that we did was they...
View ArticleKnoxville’s McGhee Tyson Airport Delivers Power to The People
Back in January I made a trip to Fresno where I found that the newly renovated airport took a decidedly 1980′s approach to publicly available AC power. That is, they basically didn’t provide any beyond...
View ArticleThe Case For Making A Great Case
In my past life I schlepped equipment all around North America in the process of giving demonstrations. As the most senior field staff it also fell to me to oversee the acquisition of shipping cases...
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