travel

Epcot International Food & Wine Festival

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My wife and I were at Disney World for our honeymoon when Epcot held the first International Food & Wine Festival back in 1996. And yet, with all the times we’ve been to Disney World since then (which also was my first time ever), we’ve never been there again during the festival … until this weekend, celebrating its 15th year.

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MacBook Air(port) cleared by TSA

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The original MacBook Air confused the TSA when it was introduced two years ago.

Now, CNN is reporting that the TSA has cleared the new MacBook Air so you don’t have to take it out of your bag for screening:

Apple may wish to avoid comparisons of the MacBook Air to similarly compact but underpowered netbooks. However, like netbooks, Apple’s new laptop is “smaller than a standard-size laptop,” meaning it can stay in a bag, said TSA spokesman Nicholas Kimball.

When I still had my Eee PCs I always had to remove them from my bag when going through security and they were a lot smaller than the new Macbook Air. Granted, they were thicker and that probably affected the x-ray photos, but it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out at the airport checkpoints.

Into the New York state (of mind)

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I’m sitting at Gate E68 in the Tampa International Airport waiting for my flight to New York’s LaGuardia Airport. I’m heading to Manhattan for a 10-day business trip, the primary objective of which is the upgrade of our PeopleSoft financials system over the weekend.

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