Monthly Archives: February 2008 - Page 2

Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounges

Posted by on February 10, 2008 1 comment

I traveled to Montreal for the weekend to see friends and my sister who I haven’t seen in over 6 months.  The family visitation was tame, but visiting friends sometimes gets a little crazy.  Needless to say I didn’t get as much sleep as I would have liked.

I decided to travel back to Houston on Air Canada.  They’re a partner with United, so my Red Carpet lounge access carries over which is really nice. The women who was checking my credentials at the door noticed that I was dragging ass a lot.  She turns to me and asks if I’d like to take a nap and she would make sure that I was awaken 30 minutes before my flight to freshen up.

I thought for a second as I was clearly confused.  I could just set my alarm, although I’d probably sleep through it and if my flight changes at all I’d be screwed.  So I took her up on her offer and would you know it, my flight changed and she let me sleep right up until 30 minutes before my flight.

For international travelers, this is by far a nice to have service.  It made my day and kept me productive the rest of the day after a power nap.

Thanks Air Canada!

Short RSS Feeds

Posted by on February 4, 2008 Comments Off

I was cruising through my RSS feeds today and I noticed something odd.  One of the sites that I subscribe to decided to change their RSS feed from full length to a short feed that has 200 or so characters and requires you to click through to the site.

It caught me off guard.  It didn’t make sense to me that the site owners thought this was a good idea.  If they had a good post in the past I would click through to their site.  And today, I had no desire to click through on any story.  I eventually decided to remove the feed from my reader.

I offer my content in a full RSS feed.  I’m sure people have their reasons for a short feed, like monetizing their content.  But the short feed is a turn off and that’s what I did today.  I turned that site off completely.

Microsoft Outlook 2007 is junk

Posted by on February 3, 2008 1 comment

Today I was searching the net looking for an answer on why Microsoft Outlook 2007 insists on completing an integrity check after each start complaining that I didn’t shut down Outlook properly–when I close Outlook properly every time I’m finished using it.

I ran across a post by Stan from lijit with the 67 reasons why Outlook sucks.  If you use Outlook on a daily basis, you can relate to each one of his points at one time or another.