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Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub.

Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub. 11/15/2003 07:49 PM
So in addition to the standard-issue frissons to be found here (and one of the most startling involves only a light bulb), this book also attempts a Google ...

Lost mail campaign gets lost in post
(Reuters)

Lost mail campaign gets lost in post
(Reuters) 06/27/2004 01:25 AM
Reuters - A postal campaign to highlight the quantity of letters that go missing each year has been given a stamp of authority after none of the letters arrived at their intended destination.

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities 04/15/2005 06:43 PM
Whenever we hear about established industries whining about how much money they're losing from alternative forms of media consumption, we just shake our heads. If you do too, then brace your neck before reading on. A new study by Accenture says that TV networks will "lose" $27 billion in the coming five years because of ad skipping by DVR users. Not being able to read the full story on AdAge, we can only assume that Accenture thinks advertisers will pull back from the networks to the tune of $5-plus billion per year, simply because DVR watchers can skip ads. Not likely. The connection is highly dubious and the figures are entirely far-fetched. Yet even more troubling is the age-old "lost money" methodology. Each ad skip does not proportionally diminish the network's coffers -- no money is being subtracted from their bottom line. Rather, any "losses" from ad skipping would come from the network's inability to adapt to new trends and attract those dollars elsewise. The networks are losing money to ad-skipping no more than record companies are losing money to downloads. The quicker they see these as lost opportunities, instead of lost dollars, the better for them.

Luggage Tech

Luggage Tech 04/12/2004 06:02 PM
Coming home from the Valley last week, I experienced a wardrobe malfunction; my knapsack (a tech-conference freebie) fell apart in the airport. So I hit the Wilsons Leather store in SFO, and discovered that business travel gear has really been getting better. I can’t find the product I bought on their website, but it’s a nice-looking black leather knapsack that doubles as a rollie, and is just way slick. It’s got a laptop sleeve that fits my 15-inch PowerBook, plus two more compartments; one for papers, one for electronics, lots of little pouches and pockets and sleeves, and an accessible-yet-secure place for the travel documents. Hmm, looking at Wilsons’ financials, they’re not doing that great, it might be a good time to snap something up now while they’ve got a clearance on. But I imagine that if they’ve got good stuff, so does the competition. Bottom-line, if you’re getting tired of whatever beat-up old thing you’re hauling around on road trips, it’s an attractive time to upgrade.

I beat my luggage to Toledo

I beat my luggage to Toledo 12/22/2003 09:02 PM
Yeah, thanks to a remarkably short connection in Chicago, my luggage is still [apparently] there. The flight that arrives at 10pm should have it on board. But these are airlines, so I'm not gonna bet on anything. Murphy never sleeps. In related news, there's no snow on the ground here and it's not as cold as I expected. I even timed things so that I missed the big quake in California....

Man admits to grenade in luggage

Man admits to grenade in luggage 04/05/2005 07:05 AM
A man has admitted bringing a hand grenade to Gatwick airport with intent to endanger life.

Bluebird of Luggage Happiness

Bluebird of Luggage Happiness 07/09/2004 06:22 PM
A conceptual contest winner envisions Bluetooth luggage tags: The tags on your luggage and that you carry signal when your luggage is near. Conceivably, this concept could be expanded so that you would register your luggage and your tag: without both parts, you wouldn't be able to leave with the bags. [link via Gizmodo]...

A Wife, A Son, and A Mountain of Luggage

A Wife, A Son, and A Mountain of Luggage 07/21/2004 04:49 PM

On Sunday, my wife and son returned from Korea.  They also brought a mountain of luggage, two full carts worth.  Since my wife and I already had more than a decade of arguments over her seemingly unbreakable habit of moving mountains across oceans, all I could do was sigh and hug.

My wife and I are on the extreme opposites when it comes to luggage.  I despise luggage so I travel very light.For a month long trip to Europe, I would take two underwears, two pairs of socks, two T-shirts, one jean, one slack, one jacket, and a pair of running shoes.  Since I am going to be wearing one set of everything plus the jacket and the shoes, the spares could fit comfortably into a small carry-on.  If the jacket has big pockets, I could travel without any bags but I use the carry-on to avoid getting grilled by immigration officers.  And on my trips, I rarely buy anything I have to carry.  If it's something big, I ship it. 

My wife, on the other hand, carries everything.Her annual trips to Korea usually starts with increasing shopping activities a month or two before the trip.  In buying her gifts, she ignores logic completely.  I have seen her buying goods made in Korea as gifts to take back to Korea.  On this trip, she brought back goods she bought at Costco in Korea, goods made right here in California.  She said they were on sale over there and saving a few bucks on pots and pans made perfect sense to her.  Oy.

And much of the luggage was food.  For example, she brought back two boxes of ramyeon, dry noodle in a cup.  Of course, our local Korean markets sell them by boxes too but my wife said these are fresher.  Fresh instant noodle?  Arghhhh!

When I was growing up in Korea, I frequently saw a Korean women carrying heavy stuff while her husband walked ahead with hands behind his back.  Until I got married I didn't understand why Korean husbands weren't helping their wives.  Why?  It's because they already had their decade of fruitless arguments and all of them reached the same compromise.  As for me, I help out despite my frustrations but also try to avoid travelling with her to Korea.

Between Mars and Venus lies an impenetrable astroid field of luggage.

BoomBag: Stereo Luggage

BoomBag: Stereo Luggage 02/01/2005 09:08 PM

BoomBag luggage is designed for the traveling presenter who needs to be able to bust out the Powerpoint at the drop of a business card. Designed to work with projector, the system's speakers fits between the carrying handle, leaving plenty of room to pack your clothing, hairpiece, and vodka. There are two models to choose from, one with a removable tri-fold garment bag, for $275. Not for everybody, but if you could get a tiny projector and a laptop in there (or a Mac mini and Keynote) it's probably a salesman's dream.

Product Page [VIASF via GadgetryBlog]

Stow Luggage, Not Phones, While in
Flight

Stow Luggage, Not Phones, While in
Flight 04/13/2004 11:30 AM
Boston Globe Apr 13 2004 3:09PM GMT

Plane 'to clear luggage backlog'

Plane 'to clear luggage backlog' 08/10/2004 07:20 AM
British Airways is to use a specially chartered Boeing 777 to clear a backlog of undelivered luggage.

Delta will use RFID to track luggage

Delta will use RFID to track luggage 07/01/2004 08:52 AM
Eventually, the airline may let customers track their own bags using the technology.

40 Pieces of Fish Disappear From Luggage
(AP)

40 Pieces of Fish Disappear From Luggage
(AP) 07/06/2004 11:51 AM
AP - Something fishy happened to Ray Bolanos' luggage. Somewhere between Anchorage and Seattle, about 40 meticulously wrapped and packed one-pound pieces of fresh-caught halibut vanished from his checked bags.

Bluebird Bluetooth Luggage Tag Concept

Bluebird Bluetooth Luggage Tag Concept 07/09/2004 01:27 PM

There are a variety of great gadget ideas in IDFuel's first "Bonfire" gadget contest, including the winner, the "Bluebird" Bluetooth luggage tag. Besides lighting up when the bag tag's owner presses the mated dongle, the Bluebird could also signal your cell phone when your luggage is nearby -- as in nearby on the airline conveyer belt. In addition, your contact information could be stored on the tag, so if your luggage were to be lost, airline Bluetooth readers could be used to get in touch with you. There are even more great ideas detailed for the Bluebird, as well as other runners-up in the competition.
Read - Your Travel Woes Solved [IDFuel]

Update: Maybe this idea isn't quite as original as I'd thought. (Thanks, Steven!)
Read - Better Luggage Through Bluetooth [Forbes]

Delta Air Invests $25 Million in RFID
for Luggage

Delta Air Invests $25 Million in RFID
for Luggage 07/02/2004 08:02 AM

Delta to use RFID tags to track luggage

Delta to use RFID tags to track luggage 07/01/2004 05:20 PM
Following a series of tests designed to see how well RFID tags work, Delta Air Lines said today it will use the new wireless technology throughout its U.S. network to track luggage.

Stow Luggage, Not Phones, While in
Flight (Reuters)

Stow Luggage, Not Phones, While in
Flight (Reuters) 04/13/2004 09:55 AM
Reuters - The next time a flight attendant asks you to switch off that handheld computer phone, keep smiling -- and pull out a copy of the latest plane safety guidelines.

Boy in Norway Rides Luggage Conveyor
Belt (AP)

Boy in Norway Rides Luggage Conveyor
Belt (AP) 07/27/2004 09:06 AM
AP - A four-year-old boy caused chaos at a Norwegian airport this week when he crawled on a luggage conveyor belt and road it like it was a merry-go-round.

RFID Luggage Tracking at Jacksonville
Airport

RFID Luggage Tracking at Jacksonville
Airport 04/18/2004 12:21 PM

Airport luggage inspectors policing
thoughtcrime

Airport luggage inspectors policing
thoughtcrime 03/15/2003 11:03 AM
A traveller flying to San Diego from Seattle found his luggage had been opened by the Federal Transport Security Authority, who had left behind a note telling him so, on which was scrawled "DONT APPRECIATE YOUR ANTI-AMERICAN ATTITUDE" -- a reference to the "No Iraq War" signs he'd picked up in a shop in Seattle.

So, the Feds are not only inspecting our bags -- and invading our privacy -- to ensure that they are bomb-free; they're now taking it upon themselves to chastise us for our political beliefs? What the hell does keeping bombs off airplanes have to do with winkling out protest signs?

Nothing like a little thoughtcrime policing to undermine the entire mission and credibility of the TSA. Of course, the TSA is maintaining that this wasn't the work of an inspector -- rather, someone at the airport cut the security-seal left behind by the inspector, defaced the "You have been inspected" card, and replaced the seal, all without being caught by the TSA itself (wow, that gives me a lot of confidence in the TSA's ability to secure the nation's airports!).

Nico Melendez, western regional spokesman for the TSA, said the note in Goldberg's luggage will be investigated, but he said there's no proof that a TSA employee wrote it. "It's a leap to say it was a TSA screener," Melendez said.

But Goldberg said, "It seems a little far-fetched to think people are running around the airport writing messages on TSA literature and slipping them into people's bags."

Link Discuss (via Interesting People)

Delta to Invest in Radio Tags for
Luggage at Airports

Delta to Invest in Radio Tags for
Luggage at Airports 07/01/2004 12:34 AM
Delta Air Lines plans to use disposable radio tags to track all luggage it handles at domestic airports.

Rare pythons found in hand luggage
(Reuters)

Rare pythons found in hand luggage
(Reuters) 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
Reuters - Bulgarian police have arrested a Cypriot man who tried to smuggle out three tiger python snakes -- endangered species banned for trade.

Police Find Rare Pythons in Hand Luggage
(Reuters)

Police Find Rare Pythons in Hand Luggage
(Reuters) 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
Reuters - Bulgarian police on Friday arrested a Cypriot man who tried to smuggle out three tiger python snakes -- endangered species banned for trade.

Computer glitch grounds Comair flights;
US Airways loses track of luggage

Computer glitch grounds Comair flights;
US Airways loses track of luggage 12/25/2004 11:40 PM
940 News Dec 26 2004 4:21AM GMT

Computer glitch cancels Comair flights;
US Airways loses track of piles of
luggage

Computer glitch cancels Comair flights;
US Airways loses track of piles of
luggage 12/25/2004 11:41 PM
AP via San Francisco Chronicle Dec 26 2004 1:05AM GMT

Lost without Lost? You might be in the
Land Down Under

Lost without Lost? You might be in the
Land Down Under 04/05/2005 05:23 PM
Delays in getting new episode of US shows in Australia have led many to turn to BitTorrent. It may be time to rethink the broadcast model.

lost at sea

lost at sea 12/19/2004 03:48 PM

I am having a really hard time sleeping. For almost three weeks, I try to go to sleep between ten and midnight. I fall asleep for about ten or fifteen minutes, and then I wake with a start. My legs feel antsy behind my knees, my brain won't shut up, and I end up tossing and turning for about twenty minutes, until I get so angry that I get out of bed and read until at least one in the morning. Last night, it was two-fucking-forty before I was able to fall asleep. When I wake up, I have a headache, my neck hurts, and I feel like I haven't slept at all. This is really getting old.

I know it's not diet, but it could be lack of exercise. I was pretty damn sick the last two weeks, and running when I have a cold is the opposite of enjoyable. Darin says that I should exercise more, and I agree. I miss running, and I discovered, to my horror, that I've put on nearly ten pounds since August — a product of my Body By Guinness and Linux fitness fatness program.

But it's more than just that. If I'm honest with myself, I actually think my brain is kicking me out of bed every night because there's stuff I have to deal with that I've been avoiding: things I need to write, people I need to talk to, and issues I need to resolve. Anne recently did what she calls "Emotional Housekeeping," and I think I'm going to do it myself.

So today, I will catch up on e-mail (I got it down to 200-ish, but it's swelled back up to > 500), and finish several interviews (including Slashdot's Ask Wil Wheaton Anything). I will also take some ideas that have been brewing in my brains and move them into my The Writer's Notebook, to make room for new ones. A symptom of my insomnia (and maybe it's wrapped up in the cause) is a lack of inspiration. I haven't sat down to do any real creative writing in far too long, and I'm starting to feel performance anxiety, you know? It's like standing at the edge of a pool that you know is filled with cold water: the longer you stand at the edge, the harder it becomes to get up the courage to dive in.

I hope that getting all these unresolved e-mails and related issues taken care of will encourage my brain to actually quiet down when I want to go to sleep.

Weird . . . when I started writing this, I truly didn't know why I've been so agitated, but I think I just got it — or at least I've got it narrowed down. Who says blogging isn't therapeutic?

All was not lost

All was not lost 09/27/2004 03:10 AM
USA Today Sep 27 2004 6:14AM GMT

"Lost"

"Lost" 09/24/2004 03:00 AM

for want of a pen a kid was lost?

for want of a pen a kid was lost? 05/12/2004 09:59 PM
The pen is mightier than...? Remember Afghanistan? Terry, former Nitpicker, is now a public affairs specialist in Kandahar. He's learned that the children of Afghanistan want nothing more than they want a pen. Maybe we can help them out by sending some?

Just how lost PFF is

Just how lost PFF is 09/09/2004 11:12 AM
I continue to be astonished at how far PFF has moved from its roots. The group has issued a press release demanding Supreme Court review of Grokster, buttressed with supporting blog entries by Bill Adkinson and a "grid" by Solveig Singleton with a six (yes, count them, six, with some including italics) factor test that courts are to apply to decide whether a technology is legal or not. I can well understand New Dealers racing to craft multifactored tests to regulate innovation. But I thought the whole point of the conservative (economic) movement was to teach us how harmful such regulation was to innovation and growth. Any test that cannot be applied on summary judgment guarantees that federal judges will be forced into a complex balancing to decide which innovation should be allowed. And thus, any industry threatened with competition can then use the courts to extort from these new competitors payment before they are permitted to compete. That is precisely what Valenti says the VCR case was about. He didn't want to stop the VCR, he tell us. He wanted only to force VCR manufacturers to pay for the right to sell consumers VCRs. Courts, and lawyers, have ruled Silicon Valley long enough. The great hope of the Grokster opinion was that it would return us to the time when entrepreneurs could invent without seeking a permission slip from a federal court (to borrow from the President) . It is simply bizarre to see PFF now call for a return to the days of industrial policy regulated by federal judges. Especially bizarre when you consider how taxing this policy will be to many of the "supporters" of PFF. Many (e.g., Apple, Microsoft, Intel), but alas not all (EMI, Vivendi, BMG). Thus the danger of putting principle up for bid.

The Lost Art of the CD-ROM

The Lost Art of the CD-ROM 04/08/2005 12:27 AM

I was reading today about how Wikipedia is going to release a CD or DVD of all its content. Very cool idea.

This got me reminicising about "The Golden Age of CD-ROMs." Remember when CD-ROMs were the big thing? From, say, 1996 to 1999 or 2000. Remember when Encarta and Cinemania amazed you with the depth of their content?

I remember Encarta 95. Man, that was amazing. Pictures, video, a little trivia game — I had a double-speed CD-ROM drive, and could get lost in Encarta for hours. I remember too that it had an update feature, where you could dial-up to the Internet and it would download new versions of articles that needed to change. The first one to update was the article on Yitzhak Rabin after he got assassinated. I was blown away.

And Cinemania — that was a really great product too. Thousands of reviews from Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin, video clips, star biographies — I could blow an afternoon just exploring. Cinemania was what got me hooked on Roger Ebert. (I still read him religiously, and he's emailed me twice. Once in response to this post over on my personal blog.)

And "The Ultimate James Bond" CD-ROM was heroin for me at the time. I reviewed it nine years ago for Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. It was the first writing I did for that site. The review (and the CD-ROM screenshots — first time I had ever screencapped anything) still hold up today. That was a great, great product. Did anyone else have this?

When I worked at Best Buy for eight months in 1998, DVD-ROM drives were just coming out. I remember thinking that I had to have one, because then I could browse Encarta without having to switch CDs. I wanted a DVD-ROM drive for four or five years because of this, but could never justify it. When I finally bought a machine that had one...it was kind of anti-climactic, because I was already hooked on Wikipedia.

But whatever happened to the CD-ROM? The Internet killed them. You just don't see them anymore. Now we have the Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia, so there's no need for Cinemania or Encarta.

If you get the urge to publish a CD-ROM, you may as well just put it in a password protected Web site — you get continuing membership fees, better tracking, and you can keep it updated.

The CD-ROM is truly a lost art. It's too bad because I firmly believe that you get more involved with reading offline than online. See this post — when you're online, more content is just a click away. When you're offline — like when you were browsing a CD-ROM — you have a tendency to get into the reading more and with greater comprehension.

I miss CD-ROMs.

It's Not Just the Jobs Lost, but the Pay
in the New Ones

It's Not Just the Jobs Lost, but the Pay
in the New Ones 08/09/2004 01:10 PM
The stunningly slow pace of job creation has provided new ammunition in an intense political debate over job quality.

Honour lost, indeed

Honour lost, indeed 08/05/2004 10:46 AM
Forbidden Love: The Romance That Masqueraded as a Bio In early 2003, a Jordanian woman named Norma Khouri published a book entitled Forbidden Love (or Honor Lost in North America). This book was a memoir about how Norma Khouri's best friend, Dalia, was killed by her own father after she fell in love with a Christian military officer, and Norma's subsequent escape from Jordan. Forbidden Love was a bio that read like a sensational romance, and it sold 250,000 copies around the world and made Norma Khouri a celebrity in her adoptive country of Australia. However, it turns out that the book really was just a romance. Dalia never existed. Norma Khouri left Jordan at the age of 3 and grew to adulthood living in Chicago. So, one very disturbed woman has ex ploited Western prejudices about Arab cultures, fooled the general public, plunged her publisher into an enormous legal and financial embarrassment, and impugned the very real and serious problem of honour killings. And she got away with it for a full year and a half.

I've Lost My Man To An iPod

I've Lost My Man To An iPod 12/17/2004 06:27 PM

It can hold 10,000 songs. It can shuffle them 27 different ways before breakfast... What it can't do is set itself up. By Rosemary Lewis, Sydney Morning Herald

With The Mac, Apple Has Lost Its Way

With The Mac, Apple Has Lost Its Way 01/02/2005 05:01 AM

Steve Jobs learned the wrong lesson from the success of the iMac. What he should have learned is that Apple could return to its roots as a volume seller of simple, well-liked computers. But that's not what Jobs learned. Jobs took the success of the iMac as proof of something he had long believed: Despite no formal traiing and little evidence, Jobs suddenly believed he was the harbinger of world-class design. By Paul Thurrott, Internet Nexus

Do Over : the lost olive

Do Over : the lost olive 09/03/2004 06:20 PM
Its time for a do over. Time to try this again. I will be researching and writing things that I hope...

End to lost receipts

End to lost receipts 04/18/2004 08:19 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 18 2004 12:09PM GMT

Lost at the movies

Lost at the movies 08/10/2004 08:41 AM
An unsettled age has given birth to a rootless cinema -- "Lost in Translation," "Before Sunrise" and the new "Code 46" among its films -- that shows confused characters moving through a comfortless world.
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