Dvorak has been "out standing in his field" for awhile now, but this latest column has an item I just can't pass up:

Power plugs on airlines. Has anyone but me noticed that most of the airlines that have power plugs fitted into the aircraft have stopped using them? A couple of years ago, they were all active, although none of us had the little connectors. Now that we have the connectors, the airlines have shut down most of the outlets. In the past year, I have not been on an airplane that has had these systems running. What happened? Were they blowing up? Catching on fire? This was a DC system, so people couldn't have been electrocuting each other. I have yet to get an explanation for this, except for typical airline apathy.

Hmm - I've flown multiple airlines with power over the last year or two, and I can only recall two things - the power being left off by accident (i.e., the pilot not turning it on, and having that corrected by talking to a flight attendant), and having a faulty power outlet at my seat (only seen that once). And yet here's Dvorak, claiming that no flight he's been on has had working power. Hmm. I suspect a wee bit of exaggeration there. He must live on a different planet...