{"id":6983,"date":"2004-11-18T06:47:54","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T13:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/11\/18\/the-final-frontier.html"},"modified":"2004-11-18T06:47:54","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T13:47:54","slug":"the_final_front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/18\/the_final_front.html","title":{"rendered":"The Final Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am I the only business type that travels Coach? Because that’s sure the impression I get when I read most travel and computing mags, which assume that your PC has a nice, convenient power port to plug into during your flight hither or, alternately, thither.<\/p>\n

But when I fly, I fly Coach, either for personal travel or for business (that’s basic company policy). And I’ve yet to fly on a plane, in Coach, that has power outlets. Which makes using my PC on-board a constant count-down to blackout.<\/p>\n

Not that, in many flights, I could possibly use my PC anyway, for fear of the guy backing his seat down and folding my screen in half the wrong way. Or preempting me in doing so. But, still, it would be nice if this “feature” became a lot more universal outside of Business Class and First Class.<\/p>\n

(Bitch, bitch, bitch …)<\/p>\n

By the way, may I recommend to you Seat Guru<\/a>, which will show you seat configurations on different airlines’ versions of different planes, letting you target which seats have which features, which seats have possible problems (don’t lean all the way back, etc.) and so forth. Nifty. So, for example, my flight over and back<\/a> …<\/p>\n

(Posted by CronDave<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Am I the only business type that travels Coach? 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