Travels

My First In-Flight WiFi Experience

Since I fly continental, an airline without in flight wifi, I have never experienced Internet while flying. Now that continental and united merged, I am on a united flight and it has wifi. Flying with Internet is amazing. I don’t have to worry about landing and catching up with hundreds of emails while I find

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Red Eyes: Setting Myself Up For Disaster

I often take red eye flights when possible. My past experience is that email is just too much to fly 5-6 hours during the day. But now with Wifi on the flight, there is less of a reason to not fly during the day. That be the case, I booked a flight for the Google

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Moving Places On Foursquare With Checkins

I am a big foursquare user, I’ve written about it several times here. But did you know you can move places found in foursquare by simply checking into the place? There is a place about a mile or two from my house. I checked into it almost every single day for the past few months

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Reached My Foursquare Goal: Baker’s Dozen Badge

I have reached my goal on Foursquare. I have unlocked the baker’s dozen badge! Baker’s Dozen A bakers dozen of bakery visits! You must really love the fresh-baked goodness of baguettes and beignets. Why not reward yourself by curling up with a nice croissant? This is what life is all about.

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Witnessed A Car Striking A Deer

On the way to work this morning, I witnessed a car drive into a deer. Well, I didn’t see the actual hit, but I did see a car slam on its breaks and a deer fall to the ground in front of the car. It was very upsetting. It didn’t look like the car was

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Falling Short Of Airline Elite Status As A Frequent Flyer

As someone who travels a nice amount (not weekly but monthly) on airlines not having a level of “Elite Access” on your airline can seriously stink. I’ve actually written about how Continental treats elite customers versus non elite customers differently. It was upsetting but it taught me to play the game and stick with an

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My Israel Cell Phone & Wireless Data Plans For 2011

SphinnCon Israel is 25 days away now and I’ll be in Israel in less than 25 days. This will be the largest SphinnCon ever and I believe the largest search conference in Israel ever – so it is exciting. But whenever I travel internationally, I get nervous about being connected – mostly data connected. Israel