Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

I am flying home this winter on the 17^th of December, to return January 8^th. This time, I booked two direct flights with Jet Blue because I like to gamble with life and death. The total cost of the trip will run about $400 plus great inconvenience to myself.

17 Dec 05	New York, JFK 6:55pm	Phoenix, AZ 10:35pm
08 Jan 06	Phoenix, AZ 11:35pm	New York, JFK 06:00am +1

Jet Blue does have a great online booking system, though… very user friendly!

Did you know that there are some Google Blog Search RSS feeds that don’t validate?

It looks like Google’s having some internationalization issues! The specific errors in question are:

Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF-8″, but your server is reporting “ISO-8859-1″
line 4, column 315: description contains bad characters (18 occurrences)
line 6, column 75: title should not contain HTML (3 occurrences)
line 9, column 41: title contains bad characters (2 occurrences)

I just had the brilliant thought, “What if you answer an illegal interview question on your resume?” For example:

So now anyone who reads my resume has violated my right to keep my race and ethnicity out of the hiring decision. Although it’s my fault that information was disclosed, I can certainly argue that it now affects the hiring decision!