Miscellaneous Weekly Roundup
The website hotels.com has just released a list of what it deems to be the top ten hotels made famous in the movies. It is a curious list, with some very notable omissions, most particularly the Hotel de …
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This Week’s Security Roundup
The new whole body imaging type airport scanners are being rushed into service, everywhere in the world. But as I have reported repeatedly before, serious doubts exist as to whether they really work nearly as well as they …
This Week’s Airline Roundup 1
While dinosaurs shrink, other airlines survive and thrive. Possibly the best example of this is Southwest. This week they announced the addition of two more cities to their network – Greenville/Spartanburg and Charleston, with flights to …
This Week’s Airline Roundup 2
More numbers are coming out from the airlines about their April operating results. As is often the case, we see starkly opposite trends from very different carriers. United Airlines reported a drop of 2.7% in …
This Week’s Tech Talk
There has been some interesting speculation about the possibility of cell phone interference causing the Soviet made elderly Tupolev Tu-154 that was carrying the Polish president and other dignitaries to crash (killing all on board) …
This Week’s Security Roundup
This Week's Security Horror Story : Should we subcontract the nation's security management to Visa? Much has been made of Emirates allowing the Times Square bombing suspect onto one of their flights as if it …
