Creepy Evil Twins–And Tips on Avoiding them
Evil twins are wireless networks that pretend to offer trusty Wi-Fi connections to the Internet like those available at some coffee shop, hotels and conferences. On a laptop screen, an evil twin Wi-Fi hotspot can look identical to one of the tens of thousands of legitimate public networks that consumers […]
$34 Million Per Day in Losses–Hey, Let’s Celebrate
Airlines in the U.S. are losing $34 million per day. Losses for the year stand at about $3.1 billion, twice as big as last years. Yet the real horror is that the Wall Street Journal reports that several airline CEOs say this may actually be a peak in the economic […]
"The Red Baron" Spies on Scrapyards
Steel these days comes mostly from scrap metal. And many people are aware that scrap metal and waste paper are the two things we export the most to China. But one problem that was reported in Tuesday’s Wall St. Journal was that there is not a consistent and open system […]
Order Some Wine on Line
The Wall Street Journal reported this week on a major milestone Supreme Court decision, that will ripple through many other industries. They struck down limits in state laws barring direct sales of wine across state lines to consumers. “Wine is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to […]
Everybody’s Goin’ Somewhere Around Here
One of the best things about being in the travel business is traveling. We get many invitations from tourism boards and CVBs to send writers out to do stories. These trips are always well organized (well most of them anyway) and when you travel courtesy of the tourism board, you […]
Firemen Grab ‘Hose’, Flee Burning Building
Firemen in Donetsk, Ukraine fled in panic from a blazing building after one of them grabbed a hosepipe that turned out to be a 10-foot python. The firefighters had arrived to fight a blaze at a health club in, when one of them tripped over what he thought was a […]
Hit Four Times….but Nobody Cared
Mark Flanagan, of Glannant, Wales, was wandering drunk on a divided highway, after his brother’s stag party when he was run down–by four separate cars. None of the drivers stopped to help him. And none of them reported any of the accidents. At Flanagan’s inquest, a coroner called the quadruple […]