OK, so this isn't about school, but this is my blog and I'll write about what I want...
Via The Volokh Conspiracy, an interesting item about how the TSA missed 75% of mock bombs smuggled through security at LAX and O'Hare. I travel somewhat often, and while I don't get through O'Hare very much, I spend a lot of time at LAX. So this makes me a tad nervous.
The screeners at San Francisco International, who do not work for TSA, only missed 20% of the mock bombs. Since I sometimes travel to that area, I'll make sure to book future flights through SFO.
I didn't see anything about my "home" airport (Washington Dulles) but who knows, they all work for TSA too. Fabulous.
Link: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_10_14-2007_10_20.shtml#1192771599
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Tired...
It's been a while since my last update, mostly because I've been quite busy.
Vacation was nice, we did get to do some stuff in spite of my class load. I found out that the town (actually the whole county) my family lives in has municipal Wi-Fi and low-speed connections are free. So, I was able to get some classwork done without having to schlep everything to Panera Bread.
Anyway, back to busy...after returning from vacation and going back to work on a Wednesday, we had a huge system upgrade to do on that Friday...it went until about 4:00 AM. Big problems. It ended up being about a 23-hour workday.
The Thursday after that Friday, I flew to a customer site in the Midwest and did another large upgrade and some other work, 24 work hours in two days.
And I still managed to get my final project and exam for one class done. Go me!
Anyway, it's late and time for bed. The hotel isn't too bad, but restaurant food all day every day gets old.
Vacation was nice, we did get to do some stuff in spite of my class load. I found out that the town (actually the whole county) my family lives in has municipal Wi-Fi and low-speed connections are free. So, I was able to get some classwork done without having to schlep everything to Panera Bread.
Anyway, back to busy...after returning from vacation and going back to work on a Wednesday, we had a huge system upgrade to do on that Friday...it went until about 4:00 AM. Big problems. It ended up being about a 23-hour workday.
The Thursday after that Friday, I flew to a customer site in the Midwest and did another large upgrade and some other work, 24 work hours in two days.
And I still managed to get my final project and exam for one class done. Go me!
Anyway, it's late and time for bed. The hotel isn't too bad, but restaurant food all day every day gets old.
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