One of the benefits to travel, in my opinion, is the opportunity to look at another city's newspaper(s). I find it moderately annoying that Seattle, a city which is much smaller than Houston, has two daily papers while we're stuck with one. In any event, today's Seattle Times had a couple of interesting pieces in their Business section, about a universal remote that might actually simplify the TV/cable/VCR mess, the possibility that Peru might ban Microsoft products from their government offices, and how evil popup ads are starting to be tolerated by web users.