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Seen that? - Earthship Enterprise

Earthship Enterprise at Wandalust New Mexico company Earthship Biotecture specialises in creating environmentally friendly, solar and thermodynamically powered homes, called Earthships. "The Earthship is a completely independent globally orie...

India, China Bicker Over Visas

2point6billion (a blog that covers issues that impact both India and China) is reporting on a "spat" between China and India over how China issues visas to residents of the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir. ...the Indian government has formally protested against the Chinese practice o...

Western Digital Intros Terabyte Laptop Drive

Western Digital has introduced two new WD Scorpio Blue SATA 2.5-inch laptop drives , offering either 1 TB or 750 GB of storage. "The two models are targeted at laptops and mini-desktop PCs, such as the Apple Mini," writes InformationWeek's Antone Gonsalves . "The drives a...

Illegal Immigration - in China

When illegal immigration gets mentioned in the press people usually assume the story is about Latin American immigration into the United States. But China has its own problem with illegal immigration, and the source community for the immigrants is Africa. China Economic Net recently reported on p...

Wanted: Oldest Pontiac Plus Oldest Pontiac With Original Owner

Pontiac, soon to become one of the Lost Marques of America. Just this day I read that GM would shortly discontinue the Solstice and the Vibe. Mind you, the former was a niche car whose image was diminished by sharing it with Saturn and a British Vauxhall , while the latter was a Toyota Matrix...

Jewelry Sale at HSN.com

Designer Fashion Jewelry HSN is a leading interactive multi-channel retailer, with eight unique and compelling lifestyle brands. HSN offers innovative, differentiated retail experiences on TV, online, in catalogs, and brick and mortar stores. HSN comprises the Company's TV network which reach...

Spain's Cuban Grandchildren Get Passports

Spain is issuing passports to Cubans who qualify for Spanish citizenship under that country's "historical memory" law, according to Reuters . The historical memory law may let as many as 200,000 Cubans claim Spanish citizenship because they have a grandparent born in Spain. Globally,...

Opinion: Policies Prolonged Depression

• Opinion: Policies Prolonged Depression • Violent unrest rocks China as crisis hits • The Challenges Of Tomorrow's Multimedia As Seen Through The Eyes Of Google, Yahoo, Nokia And Others • Passport RFIDs cloned wholesale by $250 eBay auction spree • AddMerch.com - A Single Button Mercha...

New Visa Rules Impact Golfers

Courtesy: Getty Images Over the past couple of years, authorities in the United States have increased their scrutiny of people entering the country - whether they're visitors or returning American residents or citizens. This scrutiny has taken various forms. Remember those famous "no...

Costa Rica Travel Channel

I woke up this morning to snow in October - an inch and a half of the white stuff on my car. The road to work was like driving on a snow cone. And it got me looking for my passport... I came across the Costa Rica Travel Channel just the other day. Something about cold wind make me think of warm b...

New York State Intros RFID-Enabled Enhanced Drivers License

The State of new York this week started offering its citizen the option of purchasing a new, RFID-enabled Enhanced Driver's License . "The radio frequency identification chip in the EDL will be able to be scanned by authorities to identify citizens entering the state from Canad...

Leto blow for Liverpool.

There was more bad news for Liverpool's twenty one year old Argentine midfielder Sebastian Leto today when he was denied a work permit to play in England next season. Leto joined Liverpool from Lanus for a fee of around £2million in 2007. He was granted an Italian passport last sum...

30 ideas to be funded - meet ycombinator

Paul Jozefak links to Paul Graham Y Combinator , who has put together a list of ideas he considers to fund. Rare to see that VCs open the gates and describe in more detail what they are looking for. Alas most ideas are very abstract (and to me knowledge) tehre are few 'real' solution but I...

RFID tickets at China Olympics 2008 but only for the opening and closing ceremonies

I had earlier talked about how RFID tickets would be a major feature at china olympics 2008 but it has been reported that RFID Olympic tickets will only be available for the most sought after event of the Olympics - the opening and closing ceremonies . So what will these tickets fea...

When You Can't Do, You Pimp: WSOP 2008 Reading Guide

Since I am not currently huddled behind my laptop in the Rio's conference room where thousands of players have huddled together to strike first blood, I'll pimp those who are ready to bring the armchair poker fanbois at home a little taste of the World Series of Poker. Pauly over a...

Almost-Tuscany in Virginia, USA

Hmmm...I was just dreaming about Tuscany in the previous post. Now I found this from The Washington Post: That's Italian . . . in Virginia? © trentroche K.C. Summers wrote, about Keswick Hall : I do like a nice hotel. And while I'm not the kind of person who ordinarily spends ...

UpTake launches Public Beta. Interview with Elliott Ng, VP of Marketing.

UpTake , the Travel Meta-Search and Discovery Site Launches Public Beta. They has amassed the travel industry's largest database of hotels and activities and analyzed more than 20 million online reviews and opinions from other travelers. With a simple word, they collects and organizes OnL...

Travel Emergencies

While travel can be a fantastic experience, it can also be a disaster. Anyone who has ever had their passport, credit cards or money stolen can tell you this. Not to mention medical emergencies, missed flights and lost cell phones. The folks at Fisher understand. As such, they've created t...

May Wine Events

May is filled with wine festivals and other wine events as the weather warms around the United States. Here is just a sampling: San Luis Obispo, CA - May 1-4 - Roll out the Barrels Cleveland, OH - May 2-3 - Cleveland International Wine Show Orange Beach, AL - May 2-4 - Southern...

Top Ten Lipper Hedge Funds

Wednesday's Lipper Awards were; "Based on our quantitative fund rating methodology, the Lipper Hedge Fund Awards recognize the combined return and risk achievements of hedge fund managers," Gabriel Burstein, Lipper's head of global research, said in a statement. Over 1,041 fu...

Mietwagentour durch Brasilien

by Xenia Antunes Es kommt überaus selten vor, dass man aus erster Hand Berichte über Mietwagentouren zu lesen bekommt. Umso interessanter sind da die Erlebnisse von Dan Hensley, der bei Gringoes über seinen Trip nach und durch Brasilien berichtet. We drove almost 3,000km in three weeks. s...

RFID hacked via off-the-shelf components

Boing Boing just featured a hacker demonstrating how easy it is to get the content of your RFID-enabled credit cards or anything that is RFID-enabled (like your passport) by using an US$8 RFID reader and a computer (this one is a US$1800 macbook air hehe). I am really concerned about ho...

Dating Weblog Post Roundup

Hopefully you have had a chance to visit this site every day when new blog posts are put up for you to read. However, we all lead busy lives and there's a chance that's meant that you missed out on some great posts. In case you missed them the first time around, you might want to go...

Boo Hoo Isuzu

Joe isuzu is in mourning. Isuzu has made it official; it is leaving the light-vehicle market in the United States. Isuzu said it will stop selling new vehicles here on January 31, 2009.

Northern Trust FoHF's To Recieve Daily, Instead of Monthly Data

Northern Trust has announced the setup of a worldwide partnership with financial applications company youDevise, it will offer funds of hedge funds daily portfolio management data. Typically, funds of hedge funds ("FoHF") can only get this type of information from their administrators o...

欧盟监管部门称 IP 地址也是个人隐私

欧盟数据隐私监管部门 近日宣布 ，通常情况下，IP地址也应被视为个人信息。 德国数据保护专员、欧盟数据隐私监管部门主管 Peter Scharr，在欧洲议会就网络数据保护召开的听证会上表示，当某人通过 IP 地址被确认身份时，IP 地址也应当视为个人数据。他目前正负责筹备一份报告，主题是 Google、Yahoo 和微软等互联网搜索引擎执行隐私保护政策的情况。 Peter Scharr 的观点与 Google 截然不同，后者坚称 IP 地址只能用于识别一台计算机的地址，而不是个人用户的身份。从严格意义上讲，Google 的说法并没有错误，但是该公司并没有考虑到很多用户通常都使用同一台计算机...

PokerStars Doesn't Like Money, Wants You To Get Some

PokerStars isn't sitting on its laurels as one of, if not the best online poker site currently allowing all players to sit down and throw virtual chips regardless of their nationality (but are of legal gambling age of course). A couple of promotions going on from the PokerStars that I sc...

infoworld 评科技史 30 年 TOP25 失败的产品

《infoworld》 近日评出了科技史上的 25 大失败 ，包括硬件、软件、人物和商业模式。其中，微软 Windows Vista 操作系统、无纸办公、B2B 电子商务和电子货币都入选了失败者的名单。 全部列表如下： 1、安全 计算机已经进入了商务世界的方方面面，并赢得了人们的信任。但在历时30年的计算机时代里，安全问题日益突出，而且不断恶化。病毒、蠕虫和木马都给用户带来了无穷无尽的烦恼。 2、Windows Vista Windows Vista 开发周期长达数年，但最终上市的版本却取消了 WinFS 等用户最为期待的新功能。尽管微软号称 Windows Vista 是一款...

PokerStars Passport Winner Dustin Mele is Ready for the Trips (and cash)

I had mentioned the PokerStars Passport freeroll a month ago that awarded a top 100 tournament leadboard player at their site the chance to compete in ten big buy in tournament around the world on their dime. Dustin Mele will globetrotting across these $10,000 buy in tournaments without worr...

Field Set for PokerStars Passport

Who else would like to fly around to world on someone else's dimes because they play a card game better then others for a month? As reported before, The PokerStars Passport is awarding ten big buy-ins for the European Poker Tour, Asian Pacific Poker Tour, or the World Series of Poker main...

RFID vor flächendeckender Einführung in US-Führerscheine?

Should The Federal Government Require RFID Tags In All Drivers Licenses? - so lautet die Überschrift eines Artikels bei Autospies.com. Der Hintergrund ist klar, denn im kommenden Jahr planen mit arizona , Michigan, Vermont und Washington gleich vier US-Bundesstaaten die Implementierung...

Traveling Solo

Will 2008 include travel for business or personal? I'm preparing to take a trip early in the New Year and will be traveling alone. As a woman, there are certain precautions to take and so I checked the book Wanderlust and Lipstick out of the library. The author, Beth Whitman, offers great ...

Ministry of the Intrerior

photo Israeli passport holders are probably irritated by now. A story published in Yahoo news reported that the Israeli Passport Office misspelled it's stamp in the new passport batches. New batches of passports were stamped with "Ministry of the Intrerior". In order to corre...

Season Promos At Full Tilt and PokerStars

The holiday season is here if you haven't watching your waistline and credit card bills reach numbers you didn't possible. Along with all the retailers like Target, WalMart, and kmart , you'll find deals and specials at several online poker rooms good around this time of year. I...

New Passport Rules for the New Year

If you haven't gotten your passport yet, keep this in mind. On January 31, the rules for entering USA will get tougher . If you are arriving into the USA by land via a boat, you will need both a valid passport (or government-issued photo ID or driver's license) AND proof of U.S. citizensh...

Safe Sex Passport

If you're dating in the modern world, you're probably familiar with the "safe sex" conversation. For some people, the conversation happens even before the first date and consists of something like, "when was the last time that you were tested for STD's and do you alway...

微软拦截Gmail作为Live ID？

今天， 有人 利用@gmail.com注册Windows Live ID时被微软拒绝了。如果你以前使用过@gmail.com邮箱注册过Live ID就知道，这应该是允许的。不知道是不是从最近的Windows Live Wave2发布开始，微软就把Gmail用户踢出Live ID了呢？ 注册报错信息 为（请注意，使用其他非微软邮箱可以注册）： The portion of your e-mail address that follows the @ symbol is part of a "reserved domain" such as live.com, hot...

A Business Traveler's Must Have

If you're on the road constantly, it pays to invest in a luggage that would give you the utmost comfort. Whenever I travel on business, I normally have a handbag, a laptop bag, a stack of magazines, hand-carry luggage and if there's a Starbucks at the local airport, then also a Caffe Mo...

传新 Windows Live ID 将于 11 月 7 日开放注册

Livesino 消息 ，微软将在近几天全球同步正式开放新一代 Windows Live ID 的注册，新一代 Live ID 想必大家也不陌生，就是以 @live.cn、@live.com ….. 为域名的 Windows Live ID。前不久随着 MSN.CN 的爆出，MSN 新的移动客户端推出，细心一点可以发现上面的登入选项已经包含 @live.cn、@live.com 等 ID 了，当时就有不少人嗅出 新一代 ID 即将开放注册的味道。

Travel Flashcards

It's color-coded, it's illustrated and most importantly, it will help you get around China, Japan and France (Italy, Spain and Mexico by 2008). Unlike other phrase books, Lingolook is made up of 75 decks of cards complete with a 75+ key words, an illustration on each deck, and three rel...

New Passport Rules for 16 & 17 Year Olds

photo Come December 10, teens aged 16 or 17 would be allowed to apply for a passport without parental consent. This measure was made to "bring passports in line with modern legal practice for 16 and 17 year olds" and to allow youngsters to take responsibility for their own decisions...

flyMonarch & Paypal

flyMonarch , voted the Leisure Airline of the Year in the recent travel industry awards, is the first European airline that offers it's customers the ability to pay using a PayPal account. Aside from offering flexible payment options to customers, flyMonarch also offers upto GBP 30 off...

Are you scared of ghosts?

photo Are you a sucker for ghost stories? Do you find Halloween parties lame? Are you as adventurous and tough as John Cusak's character in 1408? Then staying in a haunted hotel might be a good idea to test your fearlessness. Thanks to Charlyn Keating Chrisholm for publishing a list of...

Ingenious Travel Gadgets

photo Thanks to Go Planet Go , I found practical gizmos, gadgets and accessories that every traveler should have. Here are my Top 5. 1. For GBP 59.99 you can buy a wristwatch with an MP3 player . Not really that affordable, but if you have a few Dollars (or shall I say Pounds) left, this ...

Yotel!

photo The group behind Yo! Sushi is introducing a Japanese capsule hotel inspired budget hotel called Yotel . Yotel offers trendy cabins that measure 7 and 10 m² for standard and premium rooms respectively. The standard room costs as low as GBP 25 (U$ 50) while a premium room costs GBP...

Nigerian Immigration Law Reforms

Nigeria is reforming its immigration laws. The Nigeria Immigration Service announced plans for the reform of immigration laws were last written in 1963. New rules are predicted before the end of the first quarter of next year. The country already opened 9 electronic passport issuing cente...

To Travel Blog Readers

To the dear readers of Flyaway-Weblog, Please accept my apologies for not being there for the past 2 months. Real life and work got in the way. With "real life", I mean my 2 young kids. At work, we've had some emergencies which meant that I had to travel even more than usual. ...

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Sleep Rough

Camping is one of the obvious accommodation choices for those who are traveling on a budget. But if and when you do go camping, you must keep in mind that you have to carry with you the necessary camping equipment which you might need; and, in most places, you can only camp in certain places for ...

Hostels for Adults

A HOSTEL is, as defined by the online dictionary , a supervised, inexpensive lodging place for travelers, especially for young travelers. No wonder people usually think that hostels are only for young backpackers; that this budget accommodation option is only open to the youth and not to adults...

Pico Iyer's Global Soul

It seems that Pico Iyer has lived a Charmed Life . He studied, then taught at Harvard, graduated with highest marks from Oxford, all this before joining Time magazine and publishing numerous best-selling travel books. Despite these intellectual credentials, Iyer is actually quite an ac...

Part Three > Welcome To Canada / Bienvenue Au Canada

Reposted from Automobiles de Luxe By Gunnar Heinrich So we're on the road to Canada. It's dark and the road through the vastness of upstate New York is long. The green dials from the instrument panel are reflecting off the faux-chrome surrounds and the spacious cabin has taken on it...

Cheat Your Way to a Lower Fare

Don't you just love it when you find a discounted fare for the route that you are planning to take? It's one step closer to a budget traveler's dream to come true. However, it is not always that easy. Sometimes, the restrictions imposed makes it out of your reach. And you know what is...

So. CA Musicians Band Together to Support ARTS in the Schools!

It's really interesting to see how the education bureaucracy doles out the $$$$ for education. It seems that to most educators, that the arts (music, dance, art,) are minimally important yet for children - of all ages- it's one of the most evocative ways of expression physically, emotionally...

Know When You Need Travel Insurance

You do not really need a travel insurance for every trip that you take. However, if you are planning a major trip abroad, I suggest that you get one. Apart from sparing you from worrying about what could happen, a travel insurance will save you the extra cost, should Murphy's Law get the up...

Western Digital Passport 160GB external hard drive for $88

Crave shares quite a good deal they found : a Western Digital Passport 160gb drive for $88.39 USD -if you pay with PayPal and select their lowest-end shipping option, which I assume only works in the US. I love these drives. They're tiny and fit nicely in my bag with all my other gear....

Hitchsters

Taking a Taxi is not exactly what budget travelers do. But there are instances wherein you are left with no other choice. You may have way too many luggage, it's just way too inconvenient, you are too tired and/or you just cannot figure out how to get to/from the place where you will be c...

Sponsored Post: Get a Free Expo Hall Pass at SES San Jose

The premier conference in search engine marketing and Optimization is happening this summer in Silicon Valley: SES San Jose - happening on 20-23 August 2007 at the San Jose Convention Center. SES San Jose is organized by Search Engine Strategies , the leading global conference &...

Sponsored Post: Get a Free Expo Hall Pass at SES San Jose

The premier conference in Search Engine Marketing and Optimization is happening this summer in Silicon Valley: SES San Jose - happening on 20-23 August 2007 at the San Jose Convention Center. SES San Jose is organized by Search Engine Strategies , the leading global conference & expo ...

Sponsored Post: Get a Free Expo Hall Pass at SES San Jose

The premier conference in Search Engine Marketing and Optimization is happening this summer in Silicon Valley: SES San Jose - happening on 20-23 August 2007 at the San Jose Convention Center. SES San Jose is organized by Search Engine Strategies , the leading global conference & expo ...

灵图软件公司发布虚拟地球服务LTEarth

来自 CWR的报道 ，以提供在线地图服务 51ditu 闻名的北京灵图软件有限公司近日推出了一款名为 LTEarth 的服务，这是一款类似Google Earth基于互联网发布的"虚拟地球"产品，该产品是真实的模拟现实世界，用户可以在IE浏览器中浏览到高精细、有质感的建筑模型。

Backpacking

Budget Travel is often associated with backpacking. Backpacks give travelers the mobility and flexibility that they need. You rarely see backpackers toting around laptop computers hence, you see a lot of them frequenting internet cafes. Even if you have one, why would you carry it around...

Toile & Travel

We have so many things in our bag that we have to find ways to make our items easily identifiable. At the same time, it needs to be chic. As you dig in your fab bag, your passport will stand out in this Blue and White Toile cover. How cute and classy does this look? Our friends at En-day know t...

Exchange Rates: Beware of Assumptions

If you do a lot of business with customers in the U.S. you might be feeling the pinch due to the Canadian dollars rise against the U.S. dollar. I do a lot of business with clients in the U.S. and back in 2000 I remember getting 1.57 CDN for each U.S, dollar. Today it is just $1.04 or $1.05. B...

西数移动硬盘Passport升级至250G

虽然国内暂时不能买到如此大容量的西数Passport，不过从中关村来看其最高容量达160G的产品还是有货的，确有需要的朋友倒是可以考虑一下，预计价格在900元以上。 日前 西数官方发布了Passport 移动HDD的press ，从其中我们了解到250 GB产品或将即将上市，2.5英寸盘片，售价200美金，约合人民币1500元。记得去年底 希捷CEO 曾语出惊人称" 硬盘作用是储存色情片 "，看来西数这款250GB 移动HDD存储的数据够你跟朋友交流几天几夜了。

Survey on Allergy- and Gluten-Free Dining and Travel Experiences

Would you like to take part in a survey studying the global experiences and expectations of food allergy guests, guests under gluten-free diets and those of hospitality & food service professionals? Sponsored by AllergyFree Passport® invites you to share your dining-out and travel experie...

Vodafone's Roaming Rates Still Lower than Proposed Euro Tariff

Gaining unfair advantage these days in light of growing concern over roaming rates in Europe , Vodafone flexes its PR muscle to highlight the advantages of its Vodafone Passport . With more than 12 million customers mostly based in Europe, Passport subscribers are already enjoying an average...

Student jetPacks

If you're itching to travel to Europe but scared of the costs, safety, and the time that it would take you to organize your trip, then you might just need a Travel jetPack. What exactly is a Travel jetPack? A Travel jetPack or more specifically called, Student Travel jetPack (although this ...

Linking Friday - Bush Family, Travelling, Abortion and Racism

Here's what I've been reading this week: Wonkette: Sexy Latino Bush Heads Out To Sea At least one member of America's sprawling, multi-ethnic royal family won't have to come up with some line about having "other priorities" during the current eternal war ...

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