There were some changes made to the TSA banned list of items that you are allowed to carry onboard today. Why mascara is now on the list when it wasn’t before is beyond me. But anyway, you can read the modifications for yourself.

Although I’m sure you can find better things to do with your time.

Then again, if you are a Mac user using Safari as your internet browser, forget trying to access the TSA website. Apparently updating the list of banned items onboard was not the only thing the techno-nerds did at TSA in the last few days. There is apparently some code on those pages that Safari chokes on. When I try to access the site using Safari, the page chokes and then Safari eventually quits.

Thanks guys.

I did find that Firefox worked.

Reminds me of last year when I tried to register with FEMA after the storm that began with “K,” and when calls to the agency when unanswered for hours at a time. You could register online, according to news reports. Yes, you could register online — but only if you 1) had a PC 2) had XP installed and 3) had the latest version of Internet Explorer on there as well.

Really bright thinking guys. Especially when those at Red Cross shelters were oftentimes using donated computers which were not the latest and greatest — thus making it impossible for those there to register people with FEMA.

So for those of you with Macs using Safari, you’ll just have to look elsewhere to get caught up on the latest list of contraband at the TSA site. Or use Firefox.

Then again for those of you who are lucky enough to have one of the new Intel-chipped Macs that can run Windows or OSX, have at it.

Meanwhile, while security lines continued to snake through an airport near you here in the U.S., things at London’s Heathrow airport were once again a mess today. Reports said that some passengers were forced to wait as long as seven hours, simply to check in and go through screening. 68 flights were cancelled out of Heathrow, while 27 were cancelled out of Gatwick.