I am starting this entry offline while I am over the Persian Gulf in seat 21A. (I wonder what NSA searches will find my blog now.) The numbers being displayed by the inflight information are changing as I write this entry, so math might not work. The angst I had about the iPod lasting for [...]

Charging Options

So I am going on a long plane flight on Friday; actually two one 2.5 hour flight and one thirteen hour flight. So I am worried about my iPod staying charged for the flight. (There are not power outlets on the thirteen hour flight, I am in coach – non upgradeable as it was much [...]

A real place…

I had to stop and get a bottle of water from this gas station/convenience store. I make no other comment.

Yup, traveling again. It was odd today, for the first time I can remember I was out of Blackberry coverage. It was funny to watch just how out of sorts people got by not having Blackberry access. I kind of figured that we were out in the fringes when the Blackberry said GPRS instead of [...]

Hotels are interesting in what you can find

So at the hotel, I connected to the network. I try to be somewhat careful in how I connect and where I connect. I turn on the firewall on my laptops. I also use a Linksys WRT54GC wireless access point and router to connect multiple computers and to provide a different interface to the network. [...]