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I rode the Google staff shuttle bus!

September 13th, 2009 · Comments

I'm on a Gray Line bus out of San Francisco, en route to Yosemite National Park. There is FREE wifi on the bus – amazing! San Francisco really would be the place to live if you were tech minded.
The bus driver just commented that the reason this bus has WiFi is that it does [...]

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Tags: Personal · Telecommunications · Travel

FLIGHT REVIEW: Qantas A380 economy

June 25th, 2009 · Comments

Since most journos who have scored free flights from airlines on A380s have been given the business or first class experience and written about that (for obvious reasons… airlines want publicity for their immensely profitable premium seats) I thought it would be worth relaying my experience of flying a Qantas A380 in economy recently. (The [...]

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Tags: Travel

Voicemail is dead.

July 6th, 2008 · Comments

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES! Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has it SO right in his article, Think Before you Voicemail. I could not agree more! Voicemail is a horrible relic of the 90s from an era before everyone had email at their fingertips, and it must DIE!
My particular tactic at work is to have [...]

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Tags: Telecommunications