Posted in Macintosh, Politics, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Laptop Searches in Airports Draw Fire at Senate Hearing
Russ Feingold:
“If you asked most Americans whether the government has the right to look through their luggage for contraband when they are returning from an overseas trip, they would tell you ‘yes, the government has that right,’ ” Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, said Wednesday at [...]
Posted in Photo Gear, Travel on Jun 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Steven Frischling reviews The Mountainsmith Correspondent rolling camera bag. Looks great.
[via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Tech Stuff, Travel, Video on Jun 19th, 2008 No Comments »
This is great news. It’s a start and we’ll have to see how it goes but at least it’s a start. Now, if United will follow suit on their NY-LA runs I’ll be happy.
The other thing folks in coach will want to keep in mind is that turning on wifi without AC power will use [...]
Posted in Ideas, Travel on Jun 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Alaska Airlines rethinks check-in
Dang, I wish they went national. I’ve always liked them but I don’t fly them anymore. West coast US flyers, take note.
[via Signal vs. Noise]
Posted in Macintosh, Movies, Music, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jun 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
United Airlines Offering iPod/iPhone Connectivity on International Flights
Plug in, watch your content on their screen. Interesting and no doubt great. Only on business and first class. The rest of us will have to watch movies on small screens or hope our MacBook Pro batteries will go the distance.
I don’t care about the screen. Power to [...]
Posted in Travel on Jun 13th, 2008 4 Comments »
Like American, More Airlines Add Fees for Checking Luggage
Ugh, United now too. Here we go. Soon we’ll be shipping our underwear ahead overnight.
Posted in Photo Resources, Photographers, Travel on Jun 3rd, 2008 2 Comments »
Flying with Fish is Steven Frischling’s blog on traveling as a professional photographer. Steven is extremely successful as both a photographer and, it seems, as a blogger. Fun to poke around the site, as well as his professional site, FishFoto.
[via Dale Allyn]
Posted in Ideas, Travel on Apr 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
Airlines to Begin Charging for a Second Bag
Here we go… Airline CEOs walk away with millions and the rest of us get screwed. Dang, I’m glad I don’t fly for business anymore.
Posted in Ideas, Places, Travel on Apr 1st, 2008 No Comments »
What Every American Should Know About the Middle East
I must say, I’m pretty well read but there were a few things in this list I did not know. A quick useful read. What’s amazing is how few Americans know much of this stuff yet think they know enough to have an educated opinion on the [...]
Posted in Photo Gear, Travel on Apr 1st, 2008 6 Comments »
I’m a tripod user. Not all photographers are but there’s something about shooting with a tripod that I like. I’ve got a longer post on tripods brewing but in answering a question on flickr this morning I realized that there is a solution to a problem that’s been bothering me for a while: How to [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Travel on Mar 19th, 2008 2 Comments »
Richard Wanderman presenting at the Closing the Gap Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
I wrote this in 2002 as I was winding down a 20 year consulting and presenting career. I thought it might still be useful for those of you who have to make a presentations now and then, or, are considering making a career of it.
Introduction
I’ve [...]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Travel on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Logging on and Tuning In at 40,000 Feet
This spring, Aircell, a 16-year-old company that sells air to ground telecommunications equipment to airlines, will introduce a broadband wireless service for twitchy airplane passengers who need their Internet fix at 40,000 feet.
Finally, this is going to be a reality. Of course, “Go Go,” the brand name for [...]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff, Travel on Feb 11th, 2008 No Comments »
More Than 12 Million AT&T, Starbucks Customers to Get Free Wi-Fi Access for a Rich In-Store Experience
Now, if airports, train stations, airplanes, trains, and United Airlines’ Red Carpet Clubs would follow suit, I’ll be happy.
Posted in Ideas, Travel on Feb 5th, 2008 No Comments »
United to start charging for checking a second bag.
Crap, well, at least I’m a Premier but still, this sucks. Too late for me to switch now, I’m locked in.
[via Longboard]
Posted in Art and Design, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jan 29th, 2008 No Comments »
This is a spectacular piece of scuplture built by London design firm Troika for the new British Airways luxury lounges in Heathrow Terminal 5. Next time I’m through Heathrow I’m going to check this out. Fantastic.
Posted in Photo Gear, Stories, Travel on Jan 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Nick Devlin has written a fantastic essay (not a typical review) on his use of The Canon Powershot G9 in Japan for The Luminous Landscape. The G7 and now G9 have appealed to me and still do but I’m waiting just a bit longer for Canon to work out some of the last bugs. For [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jan 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Garmin Previews New Mac Trip Planning Application
Thank you Garmin. This was one of the issues I had with buying a Garmin GPS: one couldn’t update firmware without a windows running PC. That’s over now. Nice.
[via MacMinute]
Posted in Ideas, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jan 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Boeing 787 hit by security fears
Makes sense. As airplanes become more digital it becomes easier to fly them from a remote location, say, one of the bathrooms via an iPhone.
There was a great New Yorker cartoon by Mick Stevens a while back: “This is so cool! I’m flying this thing completely on my Palm Pilot!”
Posted in Ideas, Stories, Travel on Jan 5th, 2008 No Comments »
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Hitchhiking is a great read.
I have so many hitchhiking stories… Oh my, times have changed, or maybe they haven’t.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Travel on Jan 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Wonderful essay on international plane travel by Pico Iyer: Across the World in 36 Hours
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