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[Previous entry: "The Internet and political campaigns"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Internet user statistics"] "More on airport security" 12/26/2002 Entry I've taken numerous flights in the past few months and *knock on wood* I've been really lucky. Not once did I have a weather delay (despite the fact that most warm climates I visited were experiencing some of their heaviest storms) and other than the one glitch at airport security I posted about earlier, my experiences with security were pretty straight forward. In fact, not once was I picked for a "random detailed search" not even the last time when about one third of passengers were asked to step aside. Unfortunately, it seems like not everybody is so lucky. I just read about an anxiety-producing incident. Moreover, additional screening of checked-in luggage is still being implemented. This piece in The Arizona Republic tells you a bit about it including a few handy tips on how to pack your bags to minimize damage to your things such as packing shoes on top, putting personal belongings in see-through plastic bags (so security officers don't touch your toothbrush and such), and avoiding certain food items that have the same density as plastic explosives. I prefer limiting my luggage to a carry-on (and have had no trouble going on ten day trips with that much stuff) but as I noted in a previous entry, it's good to have a check-in backup method in case you realize on your way to the airport that you took some sentimental sharp object with you. Then again, you can always try approaching a complete stranger and ask them to mail it to you. December 2002 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31         Links of Interest How to win the Nobel Prize Click for Mammogram Play "Match That Blogger" Blogathon 03 Archives Recent entries » Extending Internet access to low-income communities » Shattered » The story behind red alert » Weekend trivia » Would you cut up a book? » Pizza, cholesterol check, the works » Welcome » A different kind of road trip » Allowing comments on blogs » Paddling for bandwidth » The right to a soda.. at any price » Online communities » Silly.. but we all do it » Paris notes » New book on Social Inequality Previous entries May, 2002 - July, 2003 Blogger info Eszter Hargittai Communication Studies Department Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60208 blog at eszter dot com Blogs I Visit The small print A few words on what I will and will not post on this blog (taken from my E-LIST entry of January 2, 2002). I have nothing against posting commercial sites as long as they come highly recommended. In fact, I'm quite interested in improving informed consumer choice so I'm very curious to hear about good experiences with online retailers. What I will refrain from posting are sites that require plug-ins or programs that are painful to deal with. Example: I will not post anything that only works with RealOne/RealPlayer as that program is intrusive and annoying beyond belief and I am not willing to reinstall it on my machine (it was hard enough to get rid of it completely in the first place) nor do I want to encourage others to have it. If your site has audio content, please make it available in multiple formats or choose one that can be run on multiple players (e.g. .avi). Feel free to link to my Weblog with or without this graphic button. http://www.esztersblog.com

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