OK, so I scared myself silly with last Friday's post about possible rumors of terrorists in the air. So I did a little checking on those guys who are supposed to watch our backs while in flight, the Federal Air Marshals. The FAMs, who now operate...

What do you think they’ll look like? That’s what organizers of HITEC 2000 (I know, it’s old, but I just found it recently thanks to the MIMlist listserv) asked their attendees via an ARS. ...

Did you know that your restaurant server might be having tips deducted to pay for the cost of processing your credit card transaction? This I hadn’t heard of until I read this article in the Denver Post. It’s a little complicated, and varies state...

OK, this is just weird that toilets are in the news this week. Here are a couple of items I saw on Elliott's Travel Notes: From the Irish Times: Ryanair faces inquiry as toilets on aircraft were used as seats. Yup, rather than bumping people from...

I know, I know, if there are two words that shouldn’t go together, they’d have to be "job" and "vacation." But vocation vacations says they’ll help you test-drive your dream job while on vacation. What I found really funny was that one of the...

I don’t even want to talk about these articles, except that the first two kind of answer the third: ...

Alan Meckler of Jupitermedia recently blogged about business-to-business trade magazines, and how he believes they--especially those in the tech fields--are being (and will continue to be) replaced by online magazines...

One time I had a phone number that was just one digit off from that of a local restaurant, and would constantly get calls asking what that night’s specials were. But nowadays, it’s worse, especially for meeting planners who promote their event on...

I was e-mailing with a friend recently about how it was possible to have airfares on the same route and the same time vary by hundreds of dollars, depending on the airline. I remember researching this back in 2002, after the airlines eliminated...

While e-education is getting hotter all the time for some types of adult learners, docs still don’t like to get their continuing medical education online, according to the second annual Pri-Med CME Insight Survey. Even with a 25 percent growth in...