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I give them credit for offering free wifi in the first place, more airports should, but it’s kind of purposeless if it’s too slow to do anything with it. I just clocked the time it took just to get through the “policy acceptance” stuff at 20 minutes! They’re about to load my plane now, so all I really have time to do is rant about how slow it is.
Flying to TX tomorrow to see my new niece, and needed a place to park near Ontario Airport. I clicked the first search result, “Park ‘n Fly”, and it looked decent enough. I set up my reservation, put in my credit card info, and after hitting submit I realized I wasn’t on a secure page! I used to be really good about checking for that, but up to this point I’ve never seen a site that didn’t use a secure page on a form, especially when accepting credit cards, so I got lazy. Some web developer out there needs to be slapped. Here’s the unsecured site. Continue Reading »
I’m traveling out to Texas to visit my sister who just had her first kid, and I thought I would give Priceline a try. I’ve used them in the past and a got pretty cheap rate, so I decided to push it and wait until nearly the last minute and see what I could get. I realized this was kind of a dumb move.
What is up with Ginger Ale? Why am I only drawn to it when I’m 35,000 feet up? I’m not the only one either. I’ve sat next to countless people who order a Ginger Ale at the same time as me, which inevitably leads to a discussion about how we only get it on planes, but never a reason why. Continue Reading »