George Carlin wasn’t wrong when he used to complain about the tortured language used during air travel. I just heard part of an announcement over the loudspeaker here in Phoenix: “…For your convenience, please use the adjacent parking facility.” For your convenience, please use? What the hell does that mean? At least put a subject in there. “An adjacent parking lot is available for your convenience.” That’s still a lie, but at least it’s a sentence. How about “No Parking here. Park over there” Plain. Simple. Direct.…

My battery went from 100% down to 58% in the two hours from leaving work to taking off in the airplane. I was listening to music, checking and writing a few emails. One or two texts in that time. Most of the time, screen off, just the iPod going. On the plane now, where I’m forced into airplane mode, of course. Been watching videos, listening to music, typing posts and tweets or later publication, etc. Nonstop use for an hour and fifteen minutes. Battery is still at 58%. This…

GoodReader: as much as I love that the Drobox and MobileMe Disk apps for iPhone give me easy access to stored files from the cloud, I have to admit that they both suck for reading long PDFs. GoodReader is an excellent, cheap way to navigate those giant user manuals. FlightTrack Pro. I love this app for checking in on flight delays, gates, arrivals and departures. Comes in handy when I’m flying myself or picking up someone else. MotionX GPS Drive. Since this trip involves driving someone else’s car…

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This morning, I shut down my laptop and left it in the apartment. While this may sound like a normal thing for a person to do, for me it’s very strange behavior, indeed. Inspired by my friend Jason over at Webomatica, who recently took a trip armed with only an iPhone for his technology needs, I’ve decided that the trip I’ll be taking this week will be iPhone-only as well. Let’s see exactly how much of the functionality my laptop normally provides can be handled by…