“I have been to New Orleans many times, I know the city. What's happened is so incredibly huge. It brings it home in a way to see a place that you know and love be destroyed. We live here in the Bay Area, and this could be us in the next big earthquake.”
“This is obviously great news for the airline and hotel companies, but travel managers might be less positive, as they are the ones facing potential cost increases next year.”
“DSL providers are doing a better job of determining whether you can get DSL at your house and then getting your line hooked up if you qualify, ... A lot of the early DSL subscribers had difficulties getting their line installed. There are all kinds of things on a network that can impede DSL that haven't been mapped or entered into a database over the years.”
“Yesterday's good rate may well be unobtainable tomorrow -- leading to unpredictable hotel coasts and, occasionally, an inability to obtain a suitable room,”
