Posted in Travel on Feb 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Booking a flight the frugal way
Matt Gross takes us through a process of researching and buying a plane ticket. In the process we learn about some great sites for doing this kind of research.
Posted in Social Software, Travel on Feb 12th, 2010 5 Comments »
Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall
Or, a rolling facebook page. Even if all students are doing is chatting, emailing, and posting to their facebook pages and a few are doing school work, that’s better than being bored and getting rowdy.
A wifi bus is a good thing and I only wish MTA would make [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff, Travel on Feb 3rd, 2010 6 Comments »
Southwest nails down in-flight WiFi partnership, whole fleet to be lit by 2012
Having recently flown on both Virgin America and United on wifi enabled planes, I can say that even in coach where there’s little room for a laptop computer (an iPad would be perfect here), having access to the internet in flight is useful, [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software, Travel, iPhone on Jan 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
Just a quick note that I’m on my way to California on a United PS flight and am using their Gogo inflight wifi network for the first time. In a word: great!
Simple to use, not too expensive ($12.95 for a coast to coast trip, $7.95 for a smartphone), the network has plenty of bandwidth for [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Travel on Jan 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Expensive Cameras in Checked Luggage
This is an interesting solution to being able to pack and check camera equipment in checked luggage while making sure it gets considerate handling by TSA: pack a firearm with your camera equipment. A firearm could be a $20 starter pistol. Read the link for more on this.
I doubt I’d ever [...]
Posted in Adventure, People, Travel on Jan 7th, 2010 1 Comment »
Katie Spotz is rowing across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to South America to raise money for safe drinking water. Read more about this trip at Row for Water. This is a well put together project/adventure/charity for a good cause.
You can track her on Twitter and check out her images on flickr.
Katie and “Liv” (her [...]
Posted in Travel on Dec 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Do new post-pantsbomber TSA security directives kill inflight WiFi?
I hope this settles out soon. Gary is flying on a United PS flight (WiFi) today I’ve not seen him online yet which might mean United took it offline. We’ll know when he gets to the other side.
The problem here is not what happens on the flight, [...]
Posted in Adventure, Opinion, Photo Gear, Travel on Dec 22nd, 2009 4 Comments »
The GF1 is a near perfect travel camera
Craig Mod reviews the Panasonic GF1 micro four thirds camera. He also has some nice video shot with it: POINT & SHOOT 720p HD.
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Travel on Oct 31st, 2009 6 Comments »
Oasis of the Seas
This is the largest cruise ship ever built. It’s a monster and while cruising like this isn’t my thing, the technical aspects of this project are fascinating.
Check out the various videos, especially the entire “building” section and within that, the one on “propulsion.” Wow.
Posted in Ideas, Places, Travel on Oct 10th, 2009 1 Comment »
Joy of India’s women-only trains
India recently introduced eight women-only trains in Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay), Calcutta and Madras (Chennai). Aimed at providing safety and comfort for growing numbers of working women, the “Ladies’ Specials” have proved a big hit with their passengers, as the BBC’s Geeta Pandey discovered in Delhi.
I wonder what the “guys only trains” [...]
Posted in Travel on Oct 8th, 2009 No Comments »
United Airlines launches Wi-Fi on some flights
My guess is that the 757s are United’s “PS” flights (premium service) from JFK to LAX and JFK to SFO. I hope so, I fly the LAX route often. Let’s hope.
[via Gizmodo]
Posted in Opinion, Travel, iPhone on Sep 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Foreign Airlines Rush Ahead of U.S. on Cellphones
The national union representing flight attendants wants Congress to ban in-flight phone calls, and survey after survey of airline passengers shows strong opposition to allowing cellphones on planes.
I vote no. Yes to wifi, no to cell phone. Or, have a cell phone section like the old smoking section; [...]
Posted in Movies, Travel on Sep 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Up in the Air
Wow, this movie is going to be great (I hope). I logged a lot of air miles in my time, I can relate to some of this. George Clooney stars in it, that’s enough for me.
Posted in Stories, Travel, Video on Aug 19th, 2009 No Comments »
During the Summer of 2007, I had the opportunity to backpack around Europe for 2 weeks. I talked about it often before I left. My girlfriend however, although great in many respects, was not the world’s greatest listener. I left on Friday June 1st. Despite even calling her to say goodbye the night before, she [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Travel on Jul 28th, 2009 No Comments »
An Easy Way to Increase Creativity
This research has important practical implications. It suggests that there are several simple steps we can all take to increase creativity, such as traveling to faraway places (or even just thinking about such places), thinking about the distant future, communicating with people who are dissimilar to us, and considering unlikely [...]
Posted in Macintosh, People, Travel on Jun 25th, 2009 No Comments »
What’s in Pogue’s Travel Bag? Literally.
Great discussion of what a serious “road warrior” takes on the road. His “kit” is a lot simpler than what I used to carry and he makes no mention of a hard disk backup of his MacBook Air which I would never leave home without if I were presenting. Still, [...]
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Places, Politics, Travel on Jun 9th, 2009 No Comments »
An excellent flickr slide show of Obama’s recent trip to Egypt and Europe. Most of the images are by Pete Souza and Chuck Kennedy.
Posted in Macintosh, Travel on Jun 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
9 things I learned from almost losing my MacBook Air
A nice piece on the obvious and less obvious ways to make a portable computer more secure when on the road.
[via Jon Moss]
Posted in Aerial Photography, People, Places, Travel on May 19th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture is back from vacation with a great set on Hubble’s final servicing mission.
Posted in Tech Stuff, Travel on May 19th, 2009 No Comments »
The Race to Provide Wi-Fi at 30,000 Feet
So far, said Joe Brancatelli, publisher of the business travel Web site Joesentme.com, “there is zero proof” that a significant number of passengers are willing to pay for in-flight Wi-Fi service on domestic routes. (The Aircell service depends on land-based cellular towers and cannot be used on overseas [...]
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