This article in the New York Times offers some tips on how to get to the head of the line when you get bumped from a flight (or your flight is cancelled altogether). I hadn't realized it was all computerized now for most airlines—or that those in...

Here's something I wrote shortly after 9/11/01. I will never forget the lives lost, the bravery, the sadness, the fear, and the way we all came together for that one all-too-brief moment in time. My heart still aches...

Check out ZeFrank's presentation at the Ted Conference, especially the conference simulator part. This guy just totally cracks me up. Sorry, it's Friday, and after a long, hard week, this is about as good a post as I have in me. Have a great...

That's the remedy for fear of flying proposed in this editorial in the New York Times. Actually, a little Sudoku got me through a fairly harrowing flight to New York not too long ago. Anything that can absorb my attention helps, be it Sudoku, a...