on a plane for 24 hours.......but with kids! my battery life is so dear that I need use every spare cycle for movies for the children.

otherwise I would have loved to hear it. :-(

You should pick up a dedicated mp3 player (not just for my podcasts but the other ones out there as well). You can get a small player that holds 256 Megs for under $50 U.S. And the small players run on 1 AA battery and last a bit longer on battery than the iPod.

Of course, that would solve the problem of the laptop battery but now how to watch and entertain the kids for 24 hours. Have a good trip.

Bret -- had I but known, and if I had had a good battery, I would have downloaded it in a second. here in SA, the connection is slow and it's hard to figure out what's going on in this building. I'll be back in touch once I know which way is up. susan

Thanks. You were much more detailed than I was. My point was essentially that ICANN has tried to satisfy everyone except those people who believe in a small ICANN. I hope we hear lots of discussion on this at the public forum.