Found on the side of an Evian bottle on a plane :

Naturally balanced, light and low in minerals, Evian water SUPPORTS YOUR EFFORTS.

Have you noticed that the verbal device "sort of" has been slowly entering common vernacular? "Well, this is sort of a way to...." "I've been sort of thinking about..." It's the new "like".

I've noticed it in my speech - and consciously trying to stop using it - and hear it often in the speech of others. Listen for it.

I had one of those days...

• Packing for a 3 day trip to west coast, I left the iPod in the charger
• Driving to the train station, spilled small bit of coffee on shirt.
• Train timed to bring to to city in time for meeting was cancelled.
• Leaving train at GCT, handle to "rollaboard" suitcase broke. Now I have two posts coming out of top of bag, but no crossbar.
• U.N is in town, so person I was meeting was 30 min late, caught in traffic
• That made breakfast meeting go late, so had to rush to find cab.
• Awful traffic (see "U.N" above) to get to JFK

Ok, the flight to JFK went ok. If anything had to, that was it... 767 went up, 767 came down, and was even resuable - my definition of a good landing. I even got the upgrade at the last minute (I was back in row 33 when they came and got me to go forward...) Dear Business Class Passenger That Was a No-Show : thank you!

• Bag was pulled off of carousel when I was in Admiral's Club synching mail, leading to frantic search and debate with the AA baggage people
• AMEX screwed up the car rental, so it was not under Intel discount, and was a large "road sofa" Mercury Marquis. I kept having the urge to yell "helm's alee" and throw the helm over... Had to fix that.
• Hotel bar closes at 10:30.

Time to throw in the towel and just try again tomorrow :)

I'll hit 100k miles for the year on AA today on my way to Brussels. No upgrade for me, so I'm enjoying the distinct pleasures of a quasi-redeye discount coach (leaves at 6pm local time... urgh...).

FOO is fun, and I get to talk more about Apache Harmony to anyone interested.

I'd like to thank the O'Reilly staff for helping me out. I'm very much in a "just in time" mode these days, and Sara, Vee and Nat really show great patience and tolerance. Thanks. I hope I can return the favors some day.

That BEA has this in JRockit, or that Network Computing used Apache Geronimo to do the test.

An American Airlines plane, in fact. Out of New York. On a beautiful September morning. I miss what we were 5 long years ago.