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Arriving into Philadelphia: “Noone has said we’re not going to New York, so the assumption is that we are.” Um, right. I’m getting off, having lunch with my Mom, then heading back to DC. I’ve already missed half my meetings, and would miss a third before I actually arrived in NYC.

We’re pulling into Wilmington, Delaware about 2 and a half hours behind schedule. Conductor just walked the car and told us that power’s restored as far as Philadelphia, not yet north of Philadelphia.

Susie over at Suburban Guerilla thinks that this is a good example of the government underfunding Amtrak and took advantage of a captive audience in Philadelphia to evangelize a change in control in November. Yes, President Bush tried to zero out government subsidies for Amtrak last year. At the time, I blogged about Senator Obama’s…

We haven’t moved in 90 minutes, the last conductor update was that they were trying to get a diesel to pull us into Wilmington. No word on what will happen after that. Meanwhile, Chris Casey reports in my comments that we’re a top developing story on CNN, and we’re a front page story at CNN.com…

WCBS reports that all service between Boston and DC is suspended. Groovy.

OK, I have to give the Acela conductor credit. He’s hopping on the intercom periodically to give us updates. Five minutes ago: “We haven’t heard anything new, we keep calling but we have no further info on the ETA on a fix for this situation. In the meantime, if anyone can sing, please come to…

Was stuck in traffic yesterday en route to Baltimore for a family event (no, I was not driving!) and was able to stay online for 2 full hours. No interruptions in service… while the speed wasn’t super zippy, it was absolutely perfect for email, IM and casual browsing. What would’ve been a huge hole in…

As I mentioned last night, I downloaded the Office 2007 beta 2 and have been using it today to see how it works. Outlook’s support for feeds is pretty interesting, so I thought I’d give a run-down on my initial reactions. More after the jump. First off, since I’d already installed IE7 previously, Outlook detected…

Seen over at Uneasy Silence, the Office 2007 Beta is now available for download. I’m downloading it overnight, should be ready to play with tomorrow… I’m eager to see what they’ve done with RSS outside of IE7. Download link is here.

Filling out an expense report the other day, I was shocked to see how much money I’m spending each month on Internet access: airports routinely get you for $5-10 per day, T-Mobile can add another $20-30/month for periodic access at Starbucks in between meetings while on the road, and hotels are generally $15 or more…