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Until I get time to write some updates, here's what's happening here in Dallas at PCMA. Have to run, literally -- heading over to the 2010 PCMA Fun Run to try to work off some of the vast quantities of cookies I've ingested over the past few days!

The best session I went to at PCMA yesterday was by far the Masters Series session featuring Gerard Arpey of American Airlines and Gary Kelly of Southwest. Moderated by Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, it started off a little slow with some kind of "duh"...

I was left curiously unmoved by Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization, at her opening general session talk at PCMA's Annual Convention. I'm not sure why, and most of the crowd seemed to love her, but while I as...

Despite worries about long lines and getting extreme pat-downs, Boston's Logan was business as usual yesterday as I headed off to Dallas for PCMA's annual convention. I ended up chatting with some nice folks from Dallas and Hyatt in the press room...

Andy Borowitz often cracks me up, but this one was just too good not to share: Full Body Scans to Double as Annual Checkups ...

Interesting idea, using a drug approved for narcolepsy and sleep apnea for jet lag. I've been doing much better with jet lag recently, and I'm not sure why. But I do know it has a lot more to do with coffee than Nuvigil.

Terrorist's attempted bombing means more traveler hassles. You know, the idea of full-body scanners used to creep me out, but now not so much. Anyway, here's hoping that any new travel hassles aren't enough to keep people from getting on a plane...

If you haven't dropped your cell phone into a punch bowl, puddle, half-full sink, or other electronically hostile place of excessive dampness, you're lucky. For the rest of us, there's this article from the Wired Wiki: Save a Wet Cell Phone...

Am I a bad person because my first thought after hearing about the latest terrorist attempt to take down an airplane was, "oh great, now we'll be banned from bringing any powders on board." Not that I can think of any powders I would want to carry...

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