:NPR : Traditional Travel Agents Seek to Compete with Net Compete? He makes it sound like we’re destined for a museum, with little labels in Latin marking us out by subspecies, translated as in “Corporate Agent, var. SABRE2th Tigress.” So far, I’m one of those niche people, but who knows for how long? And sometime next year, the travel interface will be all point and click, and my mad SABRE booking skillz will be about as useful as a velociraptor’s toenail in a display case. Audio only – with perhaps a text transcript in 7 days.
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My mother and my godmother Veda walked into the house on a cold January night 36 years ago. Another aunt on my mom’s side, Lucy, was also there. They had been taking turns keeping watch with Mom at the hospital for almost two weeks, after an aortic aneurysm dropped my dad like a bale of old newspapers at the bottom of the stairs. Extra, extra, read all about it. In a coma after a risky and then-experimental aortic bypass, he had shown signs of awakening. But then the hospital called with that dreaded “please send someone as soon as possible…
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Okay, that’s day TWO of incessant color switching. I’m sorry. I really couldn’t be sorrier. If you were attempting to read this mess today or yesterday, it was, well, a mess. But it’s not as chaotically messy and colorific now, and it IS back to the same incoherent and inconsequential level of writing as before. I await your golf claps. We all have to start somewhere. Somewhere in the crapper.
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It’s a glamorous world in the travel biz. So far today a gentleman yelled at one of the agents here because his flight was cancelled due to weather. He apparently expected her to re-open the flight, de-ice all the equipment, and clear the runways for him, personally… a rather Godlike task, and unlikely to be accomplished anytime this milennium. What’s going on in my corner of the globe today? Let’s go see:
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The links to books and music on Amazon are not working right – they’re floating the book/CD cover image with the title and price, but the link to their page on Amazon is busted. It’ll be fixed tonight after work. Echh. Work. Edited to add: Holy crap, I fixed them. Today’s date: May 29th
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I am such a newbie. It’s taken me four hours of fussing just to change a few colors around… and now that it’s done, it bears a strong resemblance to one of the color schemes I use on my work computer. Back when I was just an AOL nerd and I’d be cracking on typing and cutting and pasting, I’d occasionally get this humorous error when Windows 3.0 and AOL… um… 3? 4? didn’t play well. I’d copy text, get set to paste in an IM, and nothing would appear in the target window except a forlorn little “pleH.” I…
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Dave’s Place – Hex Color Chart Okay. I’ve been dinking around for days looking at color charts. It’s time to hike up my pants and wade in.
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Liberal talk network lands Chicago outlet Heh. This brought an Evil Chuckle to my lips: “Franken, who has established himself as one of the country’s leading conservative-bashers, said: “My first priority is to get sued by a right-wing jerk in order to generate interest in my new show, ‘The O’Franken Factor.’ Our hope is to do drug-free talk radio, although I understand it’s never been done. :(I don’t know WHAT he means. Or who. Nope.) “Quite simply, my plan is to alter the political landscape, drive this radical right-wing president from office and stand as a beacon for ordinary Americans…
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Playing Now: Kodo: Mondo Head Oh, this is very cool – Jemima’s blog demos, including Moveable Color OOoooh. Pretty colors. I’m hoping to get some sort of 3 column action going with a sideblog on the left…with the bookshelf/CD collection (maybe with different categories for same). ::pondering:: Another Cool Discovery (Old News for the Old Hands, I Know) What’s this Lorem Ipsum stuff? I… I love this. This is way cooler than I could ever have imagined.
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Need to read over later… Blogging with MovableType Media Tinker’s Lucid Explanation