Category Archives: travel

Travel Cheap (great ticket prices)

October 25, 2007 – 7:46 am

I’m heading to Japan for a year to teach conversational English and I needed a plane ticket to Tokyo one-way. I’m was only buying it a month ahead because I had to wait for all my paperwork to get processed before buying the ticket so prices on sites like Orbitz and Travelocity were in excess [...]

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Anyone Know How Orbitz Decides on Airplane Ticket Prices

August 2, 2007 – 9:05 am

I just bought a plane ticket from Boston to Atlanta from Orbitz. During my searching I noticed one very strange thing— the prices were different in different browsers. Using Safari (browser on left in image below) I wasn’t given the same price for what appears to be the same ticket found in Firefox (browser [...]

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Evil Can Still be Kind of Funny

May 31, 2007 – 11:55 pm

Ignoring the arguments about whether Google is as good as they claim to be, one has to admit that they have a sense of humor. Take for instance their directions via google maps to get from New York, NY to Paris, France. I don’t know why I’d never considered just swimming the 3,462 miles [...]

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Well *Ding* You Southwest Airlines

January 17, 2007 – 12:44 pm

I’m not the most experienced flier, but I’ve flown enough to know what I don’t like.  On that this of things is lining up as soon as I get to the gate in the desperate hope of not getting the worse seat on the plane.  Another thing is being in an uncomfortable seat for several [...]

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