The Mercury News’ QA on carry-on restrictions answered a big question I had:

Q Can I still carry my laptop, cell phone and iPod on board?
A Those items are still OK as long as you’re not traveling to or through the United Kingdom.

But a Reuters story posted at C|Net suggests the restriction on liquids won’t be going away any time soon.

Draconian restrictions on carry-on baggage may stay in place for months, even years…

None of this, of course, has anything to do with the mid-term elections and everything to do with our new understanding of evidence first uncovered in 1995.

Extra: Java Cafe’s photo of the flight home.

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Engadget alerted me to this GPS data logger from Spark Fun Electronics.

The device records up to 440 hours of data to a 256MB SD card in either a simple text file or KML-compatible format that you can display in Google Earth.

I like it, I want one (actually, I want three, and I’ll eventually post about why), but the ad copy tweaked me a bit:

Pull the SD card, insert it into a card reader, [...] and wammo–you can see what Casey did over lunch with a satellite image overlay. Take a look at the example screen shot. You can see what lane Casey was in! When he stopped at the light, his data points piled up. Fancy. Real fancy. Speed is also datalogged – it’s like Big Brother in the palm of your hand…

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Colin pointed out Spark Fun Electronics as a source for all manner of geeky components, like component level GPSs and accelerometers. Thing is, they also sell the components in kits with custom PC boards, some with USB interfaces.

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