How's your luck in airports? Are you one of those lucky people who's never had a flight canceled, never lost a bag, and thrives on reheated airport food and the scintillating conversation of beaming individuals handing out religious pamphlets? Or perhaps you've got "Charlie Brown" karma when it comes to airports-- your flights are always delayed, your luggage always winds up in Bermuda (except when you fly to Bermuda, in which case it ends up in Zagreb), and security always insists on a body cavity search because you've got "beady eyes." Whatever. We're just curious, because we're wondering if there's a correlation between airport luck and AirPort luck.

Now, while the AtAT staff's had more than a few flights canceled, we've never had a truly nightmarish time at the airport-- our luggage always shows up, and we've yet to lose a limb in a horrifying baggage carousel accident. And our AirPort experience has been completely flawless; ten minutes of set-up, and the AtAT iBook was wirelessed and ready to go. We can surf the net from anywhere in the studios with ease, at full cable modem speeds. That's why we're not surprised to see that, according to MacCentral, Business Week magazine has named Apple's wireless networking system one of the year's most innovative products. When it works, it's absolutely marvelous.

When it doesn't work, well, you're Ted Landau of MacFixit fame. Sure, others have had problems too, but Ted isn't just the guy who runs the best Mac troubleshooting site on the 'net; he's also the author of one of the most famous books about Mac repair: Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters. If we had to pick one guy who Knows What He's Doing™ around Macs, it'd be Ted. It really takes a bad experience for him to tell people not to buy something, so when we read his terrifying account of having not one, but two AirPort Base Stations flake out on him, we had to wonder. This is where the airport/AirPort correlation bit comes in: we seem to recall that Ted had a really awful flight experience getting to the last Macworld Expo. Could there be some kind of profound karmic connection?