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| Wednesday, September 10, 2003 |
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From blog to book in one not-so-easy war 
| | Baghdad Blog is the promo site for Salam Pax' new book by the same name about blogging the war. It's got guns and Flash and a .pdf download of Chapter One. And nary a nonpromotional link in the thing. C'mon, Salam, get your flacks to at least put a few outside world links in there.... at least to your own blog. |
Data Death
Alert! You will arrive in the past!
| | United Airlines has a new service called EasyUpdate that notifies frequent fliers about arrival and departure information, delays, cancellations, seat upgrades and other useful information. I signed up for it in August and so far it has proved more handy than annoying, although it's both. |
| | On the handy side, for a recent flight out of Raliegh-Durham it called and told me the departure would be delayed, before the gate agents knew about it. When I arrived at my Dulles connection, so late I was sure I'd miss my flight to LAX, several messages were waiting. I was able to kill the ones that told me when I was going to arrive and get straight to the ones that told me the precise departure time and gate. It helped me make the connection with less than a minute to spare. |
| | On the annoying side, it makes some interesting mistakes. Like a few minutes ago, when it called me twice, first to tell me my flight from Santa Barbara to LAX had been delayed until several minutes ago, and second to tell me that my Santa Barbara delayed flight would arrive about a half hour from now. Which was interesting, since I am sitting at the United Red Carpet Club at LAX, where I've been for the half hour since the flight arrived, only slightly delayed, from Santa Barbara. |
| | It hasn't called me yet to tell me when my 12:45 flight to Seattle will depart. But I'm wondering... |
Northward bound
A Better Day After Tomorrow
| | So, after we're done with the requisite memorializing of an awful event, it would be nice if we also remembered the good things that followed: |
| | Amid the loss, shock, and fear, people reached out to one another. New Yorkers, so often stereotyped as living too independently, treated each other tenderly and patiently. The grief shared around the world in those days opened many hearts and eyes. |
| | That's what Tom Munnecke wants us all to also remember, and why he came up with the idea that September Twelfth "can be our ongoing reminder of those positive emotions, a way to remember and repeat that surge of warmth and togetherness." |
| | This year we're launching a simple experiment to create a cascade of positive emotions on the 12th: Let's each commit to making ten people smile on that day. |
| | He provides lots of ways we can start doing that. Read how here. And read Tom's own background here. |
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