Cheating Your Boarding Priority (*Updated*)

Changing A Southwest Boarding Pass: How To Change A Southwest Airlines Boarding Pass From a "C" or "B" to and "A"!

The issue I was trying to highlight is that these HTML based print-at-home-boarding passes make a joke out of airport security, which is a bad thing. Want to NEVER be a security "selectee" again? Print up an old saved boarding pass and modify the HTML to reflect a current Southwest flight....then just show that at security instead of your "mark of the beast" boarding pass. Terrorists win when we are stupid.

I am not sure this is legal, but there you go.

*Update:

Pseudo said...

Just so you know.. this has been forwarded on to people at SWA, and changes are being made to prevent this in the very near future.

1:01 PM

Confessions of a Thirty Two Year Old Drama Queen

See, this is exactly why bloggers get a bad rep for being a whiny lot, and why I don't want my life on my blog.

I was randomly browsing through blogs on my Blogger bar when I stumbled upon this little gem. I don't know who Mr. ____ is, but if I were him, I would be watching my back in case little Miss Creepy McCreepston here becomes too agitated and almost drive her car off a cliff.

Oh no wait, she already did that.

I know it's a personal blog and honestly, it's really none of my business. However, the ramifications of posting irresponsibly out of misery or an inflated ego can be pretty bad.

Employers now scan MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, etc., for any incriminating background activities that the applicant may be engaged in outside of work. They also go through Flickr to give them an idea of what type of person is, and while it is not fair, it is also a valid concern.

While a lot of people might think binge drinking and partaking in recreational amounts of drug cocktails on weekends and then posting their drug filled haze on their MySpace blog is cool, a lot of agencies might see it differently. A vigilant, eager commenter or a pissed off ex-girlfriend could easily report the profile in question to Child Protective Services. A video of your topless experiments in art could be forwarded to the principal of the school where you work as an art teacher. Prudes? Yes. But within their rights as employers.

It is what it is, a blog is created for attention. I certainly want it that's why I blog, to drive traffic for AdSense and maybe make acquaintances or if we're lucky, friendships. But certainly not at the expense of my privacy. A shoulder to cry on is something you can't get in a blog. Share your humor, your expertise, your opinions, but don't beg for a pity party.

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Weather Talk

Here. Look at this post from a friend of mine, and you would think that we live in the same part of the world when in fact we are in opposite ends... uhm, of a round object... wait that doesn't make any sense. Let's try that again.

This past week has been a rainy one for Houston. And surprisingly, it didn't flood as much as I expected, considering the amount of rain we received. That photo she posted with the nasty gray clouds could very well be Galveston this week.

What struck me as odd is that I was expecting the Philippines to be always bright and sunny and tropicool. I forgot that this is the rainy season (one of two seasons, the other one is Sticky Ass season). And being in completely different timezones, I was expecting the weather to be opposites as well.

Weather's a tricky thing. Color me surprised that today, Houston is the little slice of hell that it has been since summer began, after that almost daily rain that we got.

And yes, I did talk about the weather for my post. Exciting.

And P.S.: Thanks, Elena, for that wonderful picture of that meal. Now my stomach's scolding me.

Watur the Water Door

Okay, this makes sense. Why settle for a door, when you can have a "door".

A functional door formed by constantly falling water which pushes for a redefinition of boundaries and obstacles by forcing one to choose to be denied or refused access.

Well.

With a tagged price of $2000, you no longer have to put up with that Wicked Witch of the West trying to sneak in and swipe your favorite pink blouse. A small price to pay to prevent the blindness that could be had with a green on pink color combo.

YouTube (Office) Shenanigans!

Tell me that wasn't funny. Go on, tell me.

Phone Dependency

I think I only have three or four phone numbers memorized, and one of those phone numbers is the phone number for our old house abroad, and my own cellphone. I mean, it's so easy to access your phonebook from your cell phone, why memorize?

Well, if you're like me and you keep forgetting the only phone that you have and you are stuck at a gas station without a phone list and with only a pay phone, it might be a good idea to keep a list of emergency contacts in your wallet.

Like with all things emergency, it is best to prepare for an emergency before hand. In addition to having a handwritten backup on your wallet, you can also leave yourself a long message in your voicemailbox. Read aloud the name and phone number from your address book in the order of importance (who would you call first) and save it in your mailbox. When you are stuck in Anytown, BFE without a phone, you can call your own cellphone and listen to your address book message.

Sure, you just lost a quarter making that call, but it beats getting the wrong number 25 times in a row.

Yeah, Well Fax You Too.

Fax machines have been around since the 80's. I remember how it used to be a big deal, being able to transmit the data of an image through the phone line. It was amazing! It was expensive!

And then the internets came. Yes, the Internets. And eventually everyone got rid of their personal fax machines and switched to email instead. If you need to receive a facsimile, but you don't have a fax, K7 offers a free U.S. based fax and voicemail number that forwards the messages to your email in audio and image formats.

You kids got it all easy these days. The only porn we got through the fax machine was a dark, grainy photocopy of a butt that may or may not belong to a sweaty DOM*.

*Dirty Old Man

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YouTube Shenanigans!

Would it be too much if she learned the actual words to the song?

Introductions

My third post should clue you in where I am right now and where I came from. I am a 25 year old guy in Houston, a transplant from the Philippines.

My first post should clue you in on topics that I like. I have a keen interest in politics, moreso when I moved here than I was back home. Actually, I don't think that's fair. I was not even an adult when we moved here, and I was slowly getting interested in politics back home. I guess I can chalk that up to youthful arrogance.

I like my culture a lot, which is why it will probably be featured here a lot. Again, interestingly enough, moreso after moving here to Houston. I was never homesick, but I do like to surround myself with Filipino products and food, and push Asian onto everyone. I read up on old mythologies and folk tales out of pure interest. What can I say, I like being Filipino and Asian.

I am also into gadgets as I've mentioned before. I like shiny shiny things that beep and sometimes, shoot out bolts of electricity, stunning rodents and other small mammals. I am not a huge tech guy, I can't tell apart the business end of a server terminal from its face. I like to believe I know my way around the basics.

So that's it! None of these makes me qualified to offer opinions on various subjects, but I believe it will allow me to bullshit my way through it.

Why A Blog?

There are millions of people right now who blog. And out of millions of weblogs out there, there are only a handful that I bothered to load into my rss reader. Mostly blogs about politics, food, tv, and gadget-y goodness, stuff that I like to read anyways. Their blogs are mostly impersonal, and a lot of them, I don't really care to know much about. As long as their personal lives are stable, I suppose (selfishly) it's okay for me not to know.

It is not really my intention to share every minute detail of my life, I have enough friends outside the internet that I can depend on. Or take to the brink of boredom. However, I want to share my thoughts, perhaps the more structured thoughts that I have (and some would argue the only structured thoughts), about businesses, life processes, internet chicanery and all that Net 2.0 buzz (do we still say buzz?). Netdutainment, if you insist. What always happens is that several bits of information in my brain somehow gets lodged up there and I always forget to retrieve it. It's really a bit odd. A lot of useless information and trivia, mixed in with the good ideas and quick wit. Maybe this will make room for more important stuff, like, oh I don't know. Bill payments, or client deadlines.

So sue me, I'm scatterbrained.

[up next: Introductions!]