True to his word, Dan Gillmor has started posting travel tips for tech-centric people on the road, submitted by his readers and filtered by him. Fascinating stuff.
Many American hotel clocks are wrong, and I still get tripped up from time to time even though I have found this to be true. In contrast, I can trust those combination TV-alarm clocks that I'm had in many overseas hotels.
Printing boarding passes at home is easy, and there are now starting to be reasons to do so: I'm seeing occasionally big lines at the airport kiosks (and the stations themselves don't appear to be overly reliable – during periods of heavy use several always seem to be down).
Priceline has improved over the past year, which was the last time I tried it. Gone is the ~20 minute wait for a confirming e-mail. Instead, I knew within 60-90 seconds that my bid was refused or accepted, in this case for a $95/per night rate at a 4-star hotel in Chicago's loop.
