Carry on bags bigger again

I hope the days of carry-ons so big I could travel inside it are gone because I like being able to get on the plane and have room for my own luggage, but sbisson just saw the BAA's announcement that from tomorrow the permitted size of carry-on goes up to what looks like the IATA standard: 56cm x 45cm x 25cm (22" x 17.7" x 9.8"). That's just in time for our flight on Saturday (hurricanes permitting).
At this point I'd like to link to the piece I had in the FT this week about Travelling with technology and the related article about improvements in battery technology but they're behind the paywall at the moment.

Word file recovery: colour me impressed

I've just updated 2007 Office beta 2 with the Technical Refresh. The Outlook offline cache hasn't survived and Outlook is trapped in a loop. Black mark. But Word had crashed just before I updated and I was having trouble getting into the auto-recovery files. I knew I could recover everything from ClipMate because I'd been copying between documents, so I decided to give up and install the refresh. After a rather long time with a very uninformative progress bar the refresh completed, warned me in a rather cryptic dialog that other applications would need updating too and showed the new and tasteful (or is it bland? OneNote is much less visible in the notification area) icons. I started Word - and there were the auto-recovered document in a task pane. Full marks!

And I do like the way the 'pinned' documents on the Recent Documents pane of the Office menu now have the pushpin both coloured green - and pushed in to the menu ;-)

Working with OneNote 2007 packages

Point 1; do not share a OneNote notebook from a OneNote 2007 beta 2 machine with someone using OneNote 2007 beta 2 TR. The master copy of the notebook will be upgraded to the TR2 format and any changes you make on the beta 2 machine will be lost when you upgrade it and resynch the notebook.

Point 2; if you have thoughtfully saved the local copy of the notebook as a package file (more compact, the default selection for Save As and an all-round Good Thing), you cannot use Open Notebook to open the package. Use Open Section and OneNote will unpack the package - and offer all the usual options for when you create a notebook, including saving it on the server as a mult-user notebook. All I need to do now is delete the now-out-of-date notebooks (as I'm not wearing the brave trousers and haven't unpacked the local notebooks over the top of the server notebooks).

This is why I'd like to see a OneNote note manager PowerToy that could let me walk the tree of notebooks, sections and pages and move things around without opening up the notebooks and sections and doing it by hand. Pages, sections and notebooks are like files and folders and I can move files without opening them in an application.