1/1000s | f8 | 105mm | Amazing view of snowcapped mountains taken during my flight from London to Rome.

I was first alerted to the no-laptop-no-liquid-on-airplane restriction by a frantic call from my auntie. The heightened security measures came about after a plot to blow up US-bound planes from the UK was disrupted.

I don't give two hoots about not bringing any liquid (I'm determined to trouble the pretty SIA girls with constant requests of wine, cocktails and the occasional fruit juice and probably some honey-roasted peanuts if they have that) but not having my laptop on board when I'm so keen on trying their free wireless connection (factual error: Connexion is not free; it's in fact, freaking expensive) which I didn't make use of on my last flight back home? I'm pissed. At this point, it's only appropriate to assign blames.

I wanted to hold Scotland Yard responsible, seeing that they made the announcement of having disrupted the "airlines terror plot". But, after a careful chain of reasoning, I've decided to blame the spazzes who wanted to play plane bombers (SW2tP2B), without whom blogging wirelessly 30,000 ft in the air would have been possible. Screw you, SW2tP2B! Your silly notion of how bombing airplanes would make a strong statement and tell the US to stop messing with you amuses me. It's symbolic but it doesn't do much save bring about hassles for travelers.

If you want to make a real statement, do a video. Get Michael Moore to write, produce and direct. You don't even have to trouble yourself sending the footages to CNN (which, being a US-based organisation, you must surely hate); just post the clips on YouTube, whose viewership rivals that of CNN. Heck, I'll even post them up here if you hate YouTube for the same reason you dislike CNN. Just say the word and quit hatching plots to bomb and hijack airlines; what good would it do to bring inconvenience and thus piss off air travelers who just might be sympathetic to your cause?