Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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I was reminded how absurd our airport security system is when I was returning from Mexico and I was:
This article in the New York Times, by Patrick Smith, who wrote one of my favorite books, Ask the Pilot, hits the nail on the head.
Six years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, airport security remains a theater of the absurd. The changes put in place following the September 11th catastrophe have been drastic, and largely of two kinds: those practical and effective, and those irrational, wasteful and pointless.
It seems by looking at the comments, I am not alone in how I feel.
BTW, Family made it home safe from Mexico. Thanks to everyone for the words of support. It was a long 4 day trip home, but thanks to our fantastic and supportive family, we made it back and are happy to be home.
I am drafting a letter to Alaska, and a few other folks letting them know about the flight. We'll see what happens.