I'm in Portland, OR right now doing a residency with our friends at Corillian in an effort to collaborate on the next release for Commerce's Online Banking product.  It's a three hour flight from Kansas City, and I've made the flight several times before.  I often find myself wondering where I am geographically when I stare at the patchwork quilt thousands of feet below the plane.

I recently picked up Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006 with GPS Locator, and it's a fun and useful little gizmo.  On a lark, I pulled out my laptop on the plane, stuck the GPS module's suction cup to the window, and waited.  It took a few minutes, but eventually my GPS got a lock and began reporting my position.  Not that you can do much with it at 33,000 ft going 460 MPH, but it's a fun little diversion when you don't have anything better to do mid-flight.