For some reason my laptop is having some connectivity issues on the network – I am not sure what the problem is, but it seems to be related to some work I did yesterday with my wireless router. If this does not fix itself soon I will have to investigate further.

There is a great site for determining distances between airports world wide – it is called gs.kls2.com, and even takes care of ETOPS rules that state that a plane must be no more than a certain distance from land. Great site, and actually has a fairly reasonable translation between city names and airport codes.

Finally, The Register is reporting that Vodafone is sueing Telecom Italia for about 500 million Euro for mis-using their market dominance to illegally compete with vodafone.