Archive for the ‘travel’ Category
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
I have to admit that part of my reasoning for posting this is just the fact that I like how the TSA has titled this document, “New Policies for Lighters, Electronics, and Breast Milk“. Because, you know… those items are so commonly used together, :)
For me the gist of this document is that I can now carry my lighter on a plane again…
“In an effort to concentrate resources on detecting explosive threats, TSA will no longer ban common lighters in carry-on luggage as of August 4, 2007. Torch lighters remain banned in carry-ons.
Lifting the lighter ban is consistent with TSA’s risk-based approach to aviation security. First and foremost, lighters no longer pose a significant threat. Freeing security officers up from fishing for 22,000 lighters every day (the current number surrendered daily across the country) enables them to focus more on finding explosives, using behavior recognition, conducting random screening procedures and other measures that increase complexity in the system, deterring terrorists. The U.S. is the only country in the world to ban lighters – all other nations, including Israel and the U.K., do not.”
I like how they say, “lighters no longer pose a significant threat”. As if they ever did. One other thing that cought my eye was in the FAQs…
Q. Do passengers carrying breast milk need to taste it to prove it is not a liquid explosive?
A. No. We will not ask a traveler to taste breast milk.
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
I’m way behind on blogging, and email, but you know what… I don’t care. We’re leaving for a well deserved vacation. We’re off to Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois for about a week. It has been a struggle (to say the least) wrapping up work before tomorrow, but I did it.
I may be posting from the road if I get a chance, but I’m not sure what kind of access I’ll have.
If I owe you an email… be patient. I will get back to you.
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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
That’s right, we’re back! Maui was awesome! I so did not want to come back. I’m ready to move to Hawaii.
We actually got back Saturday night. I tried to stay away from my computer on Sunday and Monday to extend my vacation. Tuesday I played catch-up, and tried to get back in the work mode. Unfortunately, I threw my back out Tuesday afternoon. I spent all day today laying in bed, on an ice pack. It sucks. The only real good side to throwing my back out, is I had some time to go through my Hawaii pictures. I pulled my iBook into bed, and put together a site for our trip.
As it turns out, my trouble uploading photos from Maui was probably not my connection. I was using iWeb, and my .Mac account to host the images. iWeb 1.1 had a bug that caused some people to have problems uploading to .Mac. I was one of those people. But, Apple has released iWeb 1.1.1, and that seems to have fixed the problem.
I’m still in the process of catching up, so if you’ve emailed me lately… I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. I should also have some new posts up tomorrow.
Link: Maui ‘06
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Aloha from Maui. I haven’t had much time to get online, or write about the trip so far, but I did throw some images together that I was going to publish. But, I seem to be having some technical difficulty uploading them. The internet connection here is a bit flakey, so that may be it. I’ll try again later… right now the beach is calling my name.
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Saturday, May 20th, 2006
We are gone on vacation… in Maui! In fact, at the moment this gets posted we’ll be on a plane. How did I post this from the plane, you may ask. Well, I didn’t. I actually wrote it last night, and date-stamped it not to show up until 8:40am Saturday.
WooHoo! I’m so excited to go to Hawaii! Neither of us have ever been. We’ll have a whole week there. We’ll be staying on the west (beach) side for 5 nights, and the east (rain forest) side for 2 nights. We are meeting some friends there, and have all kinds of fun things planned.
Luckily, this was all booked and paid for back in January, before I had my tax trouble in April. Otherwise, we would probably be spending this week here at home.
We’ll have internet access for at least the first 5 days, so I’ll probably be logging in from time to time, but if no new posts appear… that means I’m having a beer or three at the beach, and I can’t make it back to my computer.
Now you know why I’ve been looking at new earphones and waterproof iPod cases ;)
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Sunday, April 30th, 2006
Back when I had my iPod Photo, I had a great case called a LiliPod, that was good for going to the beach. It prevented water and sand from getting in my iPod.
When I bought my new 5G (video) iPod, I couldn’t use the LiliPod anymore because the plugs were in the wrong place. I have a vacation coming up where I could use a waterproof case so I went to see if they ever came out with a 5G version. They haven’t, but I’m actually kind of glad they didn’t because I found something better, the DryPod.
The DryPod provides the protection, but unlike the LiliPod, you can actually use the controls while the iPod is in the case. They make one for 4G and 5G models, with a version for the Nano coming in late May.
The DryPod is $44.95 from the manufacturer, but this site sells it for $39.99.
It’s worth checking out the DryPod if you’re in the market for a waterproof case. I’ll include links to other cases I found to help you compare.
Links: DryPod, Otter Box, H2O Audio, Aquapac Universal Case
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Monday, February 27th, 2006
We are back! We’ve been in Phoenix since Friday, for the 8th Annual Los Dos Hike. We had an awesome time, but today we are both still a little tired (and sore). I’ll try to get some new posts up later today.
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Every year, for the past 8 years, we’ve done a hike from our Friends house (in Phoenix), to Los Dos Molinos (The best Mexican Food anywhere). The hike goes over South Mountain, and takes 5-6 hours. It’s that time of year again. We’ll be hiking on Feb 25th. We missed last years, so I’m really looking forward to it this year.
For the past few years I’ve designed a shirt for the event (because no one else would do it… hint, hint). Here’s this years. I wanted to do something fairly simple, and the O’s in Los Dos worked well with the number 8. I think it came out pretty well.
In past years, I used Cafe Press for the printing, but this year I chose SpreadShirt. In the past, Cafe Press didn’t offer black t-shirts, and I really wanted that. They currently have a new black t-shirt beta program, but I hear it’s not very good (check out this review). SpreadShirt offers a different process, called plot printing. It’s limited to 1-3 colors, but it allows you to print on dark cloth, and is supposedly better quality. I’ll know more when I receive my shirt.
UPDATE (02.14.06): I just received the shirts from SpreadShirt, and they look great. I did the plot printing (flex), and I’m very happy with the quality. I’m curious now about their digital printing quality. If anyone has used digital, please leave a comment and let me know what you thought.
I haven’t washed the shirt yet, so I can’t say how well it will hold up. The spreadshirt site says it will be fine as long as you wash it inside-out. We’ll see.
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