No More Cold Turkey Flying

Air travel is pretty tough on us addicts. When we climb onto a plane we know we are going to be cut off from our habit for two or three hours. And those transAtlantic flights? Torture. The guy next to you whose knee is bouncing up and down at 30 cycles per second, his hands gripping the arm rests? That's me.View image

Cigarettes? Heck, no. I'm talking about something far more addictive. A bless-ed Internet connection.

That's why I did a little happy-man jig when this Dean Barnett post referenced an article in today's Wall Street Journal Online. The article says that most airliners will have decent in-flight Internet connections within a year.

Insert Howard Dean-ish primal scream/whoop here. . .