Archive for the ‘news’ Category

United Baggage Bonanza

Wow. Just another reason I haven’t, and never will, voluntarily fly again. Some crazy shit right here. Luggage that was being tracked by the actual customer via an Apple AirTag going all over the place while United Airlines told her the bag was safely secured in their distribution Center. When in fact, it was at […]

Give That Man an Honorary License

You hear about the man who with no flight experience who came into real trouble when the pilot of the Cessna he was in became incapacitated? He radioed the tower and they gave him a quick block of instruction and he landed the plane without incident. Give that man a license!

Addicted To Our Devices

This began as a story about being addicted to smartphones but ended up being about notifications in iOS 5 instead. A recent article from CNN claims that we are addicted to our smartphones and launches a list of reasons and symptoms to support his claim, and finally gives a solution – lock your devices up […]

3 Stars. 4 Stars. I’m The Guy With The Fat Check.

So the good General is retiring and the latest news from CNN is that he gets to keep his 4th General Star because the President said he could. But what does this really mean? Let me state right off the bat that all this information is publicly available. No big deal. All the information: Who […]

10 Reasons to drop eWeek from your RSS reader

Was somebody fired from Dave Letterman’s show and subsequently picked up over at eWeek? Or are eWeek’s editors losing creativity when assigning names to their articles? Seems like every other feed that comes down the pipes have “10 reasons” or “10 Ways” in the title. This is getting very boring. I give you 10 recent […]