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Having fun in Seattle…the Sorrento happy hour is indeed great. The lamb chops are terrific. The Union is sadly closed.

http://www.seattletravel.com/seattle-happyhour-downtown.htm

Avis Discount Codes – Page 66 – FlyerTalk Forums

Avis AWD’s for the U.S. (and if noted, international, too!)
A074800 – Citicorp Leisure Travel
A108300 – Cosco – international, too!
A113400 – Florida Empolyee (proof required)
A153700 – Avis Employer (DO NOT USE!!!) – NOTE: A153700-A153799 will always be questioned !!!
A177232 – Citifinancial – international, too!
A177232 – USAA frequent flyer account – international, too!
A415914 – BJ’s
A432123 – Delta PAL Program Employees – international, too!!!
A514190 – State of Colorado Travelers
A606094 – IEEE Meeting
B169699 – The Triological Society (FEBRUARY 14-18, 2007)
B790073 – Entertainment Book – international, too!
B935221 – AAA
B973000 – Sam’s Club
B999000 – CEO / Avis Employer (DO NOT USE!!!)
B999900 – AAA – international, too!
D005150 – National Charter Schools Conference – international, too!
D005297 – ASAP (ameteur sports assistance program) – international, too!
D005927 – National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees – international, too!
D086533 – USC Marshall School of Business
D454000 – Disney123 – international, too!
D833357 – The American Society of Travel Agents
J626300 – Toronto
J868801 – Florida Visitor Bureau
J953708 – naiop (march 2007)
K019300 – United Airline frequent flyer account
K817600 – AMEX discount code – international, too!
K817625 – Delta Airline frequent flyer account
O855801 – Lufthansa Partners – international, too!
P382630 – Engineers Australia – international, too!
T706699 – 15th Annual Telecom Negotiation Conference (2007), also Mobile Explosion (Feb. 2007)

Anyone else confused by United booking codes?

The order is defined in United’s contract of carriage.
* First class: F, P, A
* Business class: C, D, Z
* Coach class: Y, B, M, E, U, H, Q, V, W, S, T, K, L, G

Booking Classes (UA) – FlyerGuide Wiki

By alphabetical order

* A = Discounted Fare First Class. Round The World First is booked in this class.
* B = Almost Full Fare Economy with minimal restrictions – also used Star * RTW
* C = Full Fare Unrestricted Business Class
* D = Discounted Fare Business – used also on all “Business” Class Star RTW fares
* E = ‘Ted’ and some low web/discount fares from early 2005. Now officially elevated to above H class!
* F = Full Fare Unrestricted First Class
* G = Travel Industry Economy Class fares
* H = Higher level Economy Class with few restrictions. Some “RTW” coach is H
* I = Business Class Upgrade class from Economy (Better known as ‘NC’ class)
* K = Seasonal Economy Promotional Fares/Reduced Fare Gov’t contract etc
* L = Discount Fare Economy with a lot of restrictions
* M = Almost Full Fare Economy with few restrictions
* N = Economy Class AWARD TICKET (Better known as ‘XY’ class)
* O = Business Class AWARD TICKET (Better known as ‘XC’ class)
* P = Premium USA Transcon First Class on 3 classers
* Q = Discount Economy with moderate restrictions. (Bereavement tix are in Q)
* R = First Class AWARD TICKET (Better known as ‘XF’ class)
* S = Real Lowball coach with lot of restrictions. Reports that some are not mile earning ex UK/Brazil etc.
* T = Heavy discount Fare Economy – often with a lot of restrictions
* U = Showed up Nov/03 as booking class for “TED” also in mid 2005 a high level mainline class!
* V = Discount Fare Economy often with a lot of restrictions
* W = Discount Fare Economy often with many restrictions
* X = First Class UPGRADE AWARD from paid Business* (Better known as ‘NF’)
* Y = Full Fare unrestricted Economy class
* Z = Heavily discounted Business Class – generally NOT “legally” upgradeable.

( * = Applies to THREE class equipment. In TWO class equipment, upgrading from coach to First is also in “NF” class. Two class aircraft [at present!] only run on North American routes. “Two class upgrades” are officially not allowed for paying pax – i.e. nothing one can do – whether with miles, and/or coupons of any kind will “officially” take you from paid coach to First on a THREE class aircraft.)
[edit] By pecking order

Here are some cute Chinese nicknames of Athletes http://www.nba.com/features/chinese_playenicknames_070329.html

Forget Apple TV, Stream to Your Xbox or PS3:
If you’ve already got an Xbox 360 or PS3 (who doesn’t?) there’s no
reason to bother with another media streamer, even if you’re ditching
Windows. The programs Connect 360 and Rivet will stream music, movies and photos from your Mac to your Xbox for $20. For the PS3, there’s MediaLink,
from the guys who make Connect 360, which does pretty much the same
deal, but with slightly better integration with iTunes and iPhoto. The P2P app Vuze—which
is free—also streams videos to Xbox 360 and PS3 from any OS it
runs on, but obviously it’s a little less feature-rich.

10.5: Set up Time Machine on a NAS in three easy steps – Mac OS X Hints

Here’s a three-step process to create a Time Machine backup on a network-attached storage (NAS) unit.

1. Create a sparsebundle image on your local system.
2. Create and set permissions on your network share.
3. Copy the sparsebundle to the network share root.

10.5: Create a Time Machine size limit for networked disks – Mac OS X Hints

First, when you use Time Machine with a SMB disk, it creates a .sparsebundle disk image to put the backup data into. The disk image has a capacity of 2.75 TB. Since my SMB disk has only 1.5 TB of capacity, the disk image shows that 1.25TB is used and 1.5TB is available. The trick is to create another sparsebundle disk image of a given capacity (I used 300GB) on the SMB disk. Use ‘Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)’ as the volume format in Disk Utility. Name the volume the same as the volume used by Time Machine (it should be Backup of computerName), and save it to something like test.sparsebundle.

you want to convert the .flac files to .mp3 to take with you on your
iPod or MP3 player. This tutorial will walk you through the steps to do
just that, using OS X. Read on ..

First things first, make sure you’ve downloaded and installed xACT and iTunes, both of which are free.
Actually it turns out that MAX does this directly. Takes a FLAC file and converts it to an MP3.

Previously mentioned
Songbird, the open source, Mozilla-powered, supposedly iTunes-killing
media player has updated to 1.4.2, bringing a host of new features,
including AAC metadata support, a new feather (skin), CD ripping, and
support for many mass storage devices.

Apart from the
snazzy new purple feather, the biggest features in this release are
definitely CD ripping and mass storage syncing (both available as
add-ons for 1.4.2 by the Songbird team). The CD ripping tool can look
up metadata information on Gracenote (or other services if you prefer,
via other add-ons) and can rip songs as FLAC, OGG, or, if you’re using
Windows, as WMA as well. In addition, Songbird can now sync to more
than just iPods—you can now sync any MSC (Mass Storage Class)
device, as well as manage firmware on certain devices. Both CD ripping
and MSC support, though, are currently only available for Windows
users—Linux and Mac users will have to wait until at least the
next release to test them out. Download Songbird.

Ever since the release of Apple’s multi-touch Magic Mouse
just a few months ago, one of the primary complaints from users has
been a lack of support for Exposé and other functionalities
given the limited options available in System Preferences for
configuring the mouse.

Addressing these issues, Gizmodo today points to a new menu bar application, MagicPrefs, that greatly expands the customizability of the Magic Mouse.

See Final Mac Ripping Workflow | Tongfamily Website as it is still the best way to get a high quality MP3 encoding on your Mac. You basically use a free tool called iTunes-LAME instead of iTunes itself and then you use two widgets Harmonic to find lyrics and Amazon Art Finder to find album art. The main problem is that Harmonic seems to fail much more at finding lyrics now. Don’t know why. And Amazon Art finder now costs $15

I also us nlyric, but this really only works well when I’m in China. The servers must be closer

Softonic has a list of free ones with Lyrics Via LyricWiki 2.3 (discontinued) and
Album Artwork Assistant 2.5 being the most downloaded. The Album Artwork Assistant is a real app that basically is doing google image searches for you. So it works more quickly than scrolling through each song.