The TSA is placing electronic devices under greater scrutiny at airport security checkpoints, and techies are fuming.
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for August 2003.
Miles for Mortgages
I may be a bit behind the times, but there appears to me to be a new and more generous player in the miles for mortgages game. I saw an offer for Alaska Airlines miles this morning: 1300 miles (rather than 1000) for each $10000 in financing and 3000 miles per 10000 for buying/selling plus miles for moving, miles for using more than one service, and bonus miles for AS elites. Then I modified the URL to find the same offer with Delta, United, and Continental.
Free Software after Rebate
Amazon has Norton Internet Security 2003, SpyPC 7.0, and Enter the Matrix.
Cheaper Trains
I’ve just updated the post on Amtrak discounts.
Free Continental Silver extended
Get free trial Silver Elite on Continental from August 1st to October 15th. Sign up or call 1-800-346-6090 and use promotion code 54015.If you fly 3 qualifying round-trip flights: you get Silver Elite until February 2005. If you fly 6 qualifying round-trip flights: you get Gold Elite until February 2005. Only flights on Continental and Continental Express (not on partners like Northwest, Delta, Alaska, etc.) qualify, and then only on mid and high fares (not Q, S, T and L fares).They made this offer earlier this summer, and though it was targeted it seemed to work for everyone — at least anyone who called could get upgraded to silver instantly. Since I’m not signing up for this myself, I don’t yet know whether folks who didn’t receive the offer will be able to take advantage…
Hawaii offer
$20 off and 2,000 bonus miles for flights from the US mainland to Hawaii on Hawaiian Airlines through December 31, 2003.
Which is worse: the TSA or Air France?
An Air France co-pilot was arrested for making a bomb threat. What he actually said was `Well, what do you think, I have a bomb on me?’ This arrest was about as brilliant as detaining the teenager in Boston who put a note in his luggage saying he didn’t have a bomb.Annoying, but par for the course for the TSA. Except in this case it wasn’t just a single passenger delayed, or even a concourse evacuated — the Air France 747 flight had to be cancelled. And — blame both the TSA and Air France — the disserviced passengers weren’t even given a hotel room for the night. Most slept in the airport and made it out on the 10:30am flight the next morning.
Where are you going while I’m here?
It’s August. While the rest of DC is vacationing, I’m stuck at work during my real busy season in the office — which lasts July 15 through November 15 — without even much business travel (well, much for me). So I’d love to hear about your vacations — or help you plan one. Drop me a line.
Checking account miles
My BankDirect miles are posting smoothly. So far, the account is satisfying my needs quite well — automatically rebating ATM fees, processing billpays with ease (free) and paying interest. (But it’s not such a good deal unless you can keep a $2500 average daily balance.)
Australian Government Agency’s Sex Recommendation for Older Women
Older women are being urged to become lesbians by Relationships Australia, a counselling organisation funded by both Federal and State Governments in Australia. “As they get over 60, opportunities to get a man diminish substantially. Men marry younger women and they die about eight years younger, so there is a real male shortage,” Mr Carney said. “And as women get even older it gets much worse, so we ask them to entertain the idea of lesbian relationships.” That advice may work well for some, but I have a really hard time seeing this as an “appropriate role for government.”
