If you fly a lot you’ll see more and more people wearing their own headphones, usually active noise cancelling.

My first experience with noise canceling headphones came the first year United flew the new Boeing 777. Upgraded to business class, the headphones were nicer and had a noise cancellation switch. It made a noticeable difference.

Active noise cancellation headphones work using a small microphone to listen to the outside noise then generate a sound pattern that neutralizes that noise as it reaches your ear.

At DrupalCamp Colorado I attended two sessions presented by 1) a 12 year old with 3 years Drupal experience and 2) two high school students on good web site design (as in “pretty”).

Matthew Tucker and Preston So did a professional presentation, as good as any I’ve seen.  Even their Keynote (Mac’s presentation software) was nicer than most presentations I’ve seen:

I'm sitting at Drupal Camp Colorado waiting while they work out a few technical details for the next presentation.

What makes the presentation interesting is:

Need to set up a conference call and can’t even figure out how to add a third person to a call, much less have 10 people on the same call?

Don’t want to pay monthly fees and/or 10+ cents a minute for conference calls?

There are free alternatives. One I’ve been using for several years is http://www.freeconferencecall.com.

You go to their web site and register for a free account. They send you an email with a call-in telephone number and a conference call code.

I’ve been reading a lot about netbooks recently.

If you didn’t follow the link to Wikipedia, a netbook is a notebook computer that is light, sufficiently powerful for web browsing, email, etc., and relatively cheap.

I didn’t know it at the time, but at this year’s CES in January my daughter and I looked at one of the first netbooks, the ASUS Eee PC. It had a 7” LCD screen, a modicum of memory and ran Linux off a flash drive.