Apparently there are still travelers on this planet who don’t know that you shouldn’t put your exposed film in your checked baggage. Toothbrush, okay. Heart medication? Maybe. Your youngest child? Sure. (In fact, I’d prefer that you do so.) But not your exposed film.
For what it’s worth, I agree with the author about the quality of the airline under discussion here. Despite the fact that my father worked for them for thirty-plus years. They are no longer the airline that he was so proud of.
Just in case there might still be someone Out There who remains unaware of just how evil Internet Explorer really is: it seems there’s an intentional feature that causes Explorer to ignore the settings you install, even if you explicitly change them.
Oh, and there’s a “mistake” [their word] in the Explorer code that causes it to ignore files from competing vendors, so you can’t see them even if they exist!
RealNetworks also complained that the search feature in Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system fails to find RealNetworks files.”It was clearly a mistake by the search team,” Averett explained. She said the problem was fixed two weeks ago – over a month after the states’ top lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, showed the search problem during opening arguments as evidence of Microsoft’s wrongdoing.
Now, I’m no fan of Real Networks– they’ve done their share of shady stuff as well– but this is way over the top.
An interesting article describing how hackers can intercept your credit card numbers by electronically sniffing the airwaves near your favorite store. I’ve always wondered if this was possible; your local airport car-rental return seems like it would be a great place to do it. And I knew there was a reason why I refuse to allow Home Depot to use their “line buster” because they are too cheap/too stupid to hire more clerks!
The butterflies have started coming back to my backyard. I keep a fairly butterfly-friendly area in one corner of my yard, and every spring I get visited. I was a little worried this year. We had a weird winter, with little rain, and abrupt hot/cold cycles. Plus there was a massive monarch butterfly die-off in Mexico. But they have started to come back; this morning I spotted several of these, so the Monarchs and Swallowtails should not be far behind.