The traveller’s tale
Saw two people meet up, who were thrilled to talk about their travel/flight schedules. Turns out that they don’t travel too much, but chose to focus on “outdoing” one another, in terms of where they’ve been and where they’re going to. I smiled to myself, and chose to move on.
Singapore has a new Terminal 3 airport. I presume that for flights to the US, they’ve reserved A16-A20. Why the presumption? The additional security available there, as they do the scanning.
Everytime I go through security, I always have the pleasure of explaining to the scanners what network cable actually is. I have this really nice network cable, with some kind of holder, that retracts, that I got at one of the LCAs that I have in my backpack all the time. It always, seems to interest security officers (once in Melbourne, they asked me if I had rope to tie folk on the plane up - I candidly replied that I could provide death by network cable ;) )
Today was no different, but explaining it to the two Singaporean officers, was what annoyed me. They’d clearly not known what networking was. And then the male, proceeded to remove my two power supplies, as well as my APC battery, because they were unsure what was “metallic” and turning up on their scanners.
Slowly but surely, he proceeded to look at the “racks” inside my Targus RakGear. Unsatisfied with the network cable explanation, they took it out, and popped it back through the scanner. Miraculously, all was well.
Me: “You’re very clever to take things out, but not so smart in putting them back in, eh?”
Him: “Sorry Sir”
Needless to say, I’ll have to make a note to remove that from my backpack. I’ve had enough “issues” with it from “smart” folk.
April 11th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
colin - can you post a picture on flickr of your:
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the “racks” inside my Targus RakGear.
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thanks
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ps: can you pls email around when there are specials from flickr.com for subscriptions… thanks
April 11th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
correction - not email around - but bybteblog it…
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April 12th, 2008 at 1:18 am
@aubs: erm, google for a targus rakgear. i have no time to take photos… but yes, will tell you if there’s a flickr.com special. its so cheap though - $25/yr!