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So a Continental 737 went off the runway at Denver International Airport this evening. The right wing caught fire and the plane was evacuated.

Fortunately no one was killed, although somewhere between 30 and 34 were treated for injuries, with some taken to local hospitals.

There was a brief notice on the bottom of the TV at the local stations, but mostly the network programming wen't on uninterrupted.

The local news has now started interrupting network programming, they are now getting reports from passengers on board.

Sneaker-net—that’s what they used to call carrying a floppy disk between computers to transfer files. And the highest capacity floppy was 1.44 Megabytes.

In the last couple of years, sneaker-net has resurfaced using USB flash drives. My first held 16 megabytes. Now 16 gigabyte drives are affordable, 1 and 2 gigabyte drives cost less than $10.

And they are handy for more than transferring files. Back up those critical files each day and carry the drive home with you.

I've already talked about using video in sales training.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth many more.

Consider one of my favorite products, the Wellspring Flip Note. In their catalog, or on their web site, they show a static picture:

I hate voice mail.

You have to call in to retrieve it, if it’s for your cell phone getting your voicemail is burning minutes.

A lot of the messages aren’t worth returning, and some people leave their whole life history in each voice mail.

I don’t do voice mail any more.

I switched over to PhoneTag (http://www.phonetag.com), until just recently called Simulscribe).

I was working at my desk last evening and I got a notice of new Tweets from Tweetdeck.  One of the messages was about the bombing in Mumbai.  Then a couple of more popped up, along with a link for a Twitter search, which I followed.  I read a few and went over to CNN.com, not much there.  About 15 minutes later, my Google news alerted me that CNN.com had posted an article.