Weekly Roundup Friday 30 March 2012
Good morning Another week with quite a lot of additional content, and it is hard to know which of the other three blog entries I posted during the week to point you to first. And, …
March 2012
North Korea : Your Chance to Travel In the Steps of Our President – and Further
North Korea has been in the news quite a bit this year, first with the death of their leader and the succession of his son; and more recently, when our leader went to South Korea …
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The Airlines and their Peculiar Approach to Customer Satisfaction
For almost a month now, United Airlines has been issuing regular announcements proclaiming the great success of its computer system changeover. Most mainstream media have been parroting United’s announcements without additional comment. Almost alone, Joe …
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Beat Gas Station Ripoffs With GPS Based Realtime Gas Price Apps for your Smartphone
I wrote a week ago about being tricked/trapped into spending $5.80/gallon for gas (when the going rate everywhere else was $3.80 or less) while returning a rental car to Orlando Airport. The good news is …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 23 March 2012
Good morning Anna and I are now back from our time in the Orlando area, and – as promised – here is a huge newsletter and lots of other articles to compensate for the very …
The iPad 3’s First Week – Hero or Zero?
The iPad 3 was generally well received when announced on 7 March, and its first day of sale last Friday, 16 March was preceded by the usual lines of people waiting overnight to be first …
Book Review : ‘Cruising Attitude – Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet’
I dislike doing book reviews. It requires me to read an entire book, which usually takes a full day or more to do, and then to think ‘outside the box’ and come up with some …
The Mystery of the TSA’s Rapiscan Whole Body X-Ray Scanners
Maybe I’ve just been fortunate in my choice of airports I’ve flown in and out of, but, in airports that have the X-ray whole body radiation scanners, I’ve noticed that most of the time, few …
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Outrageous Orlando Airport Area Gas Price Rip-off
I’ve been in the Orlando area for the last week, driving as far afield as Tampa and Melbourne. During my travels, I’ve noticed that regular unleaded gas sells for a low price of about $3.75/gallon, …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 16 March
Good morning As I mentioned last week, I’m in Florida at present, struggling to pay for the costs of several days at the Disney World complex with my daughter. There’s one interesting aspect to the …
Exposed : The Hypocrisy of Airline/Airplane Behavior Standards
So, get this. A flight was taxiing out to take off from DFW when one of the people on board started ranting on about the plane crashing in a way that everyone else on board …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 9 March 2012
Good morning I had mildly commented on the computer system changeover for UA/CO last weekend, and suggested you keep on top of any issues that might be arising. I tried not to indulge in any …
