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Houstonist told you about Continental's new mobile boarding pass service in last week's Tech Buzz. This week we tested the service.

After we showed you KHOU's look at airport screeners' jobs, a related tale is reported in today's Chronicle.

If you've been anywhere around a news outlet this morning, we're sure you've heard about the foiled plot to blow up several U.S.-bound jets And if you haven't, go ahead and take a few minutes to check the story out — we have the feeling air travel is about to get more complicated again. In short, the national aviation threat level has jumped to red, meaning people traveling by plane anytime soon will need to...

An HPD officer has been transferred to desk duty in a disagreement over who was responsible for letting a man with a non-bomb board a plane at Hobby Airport recently. It happened June 26, when a man "with a Middle Eastern name" and a ticket for a Delta flight to Atlanta told airport screeners he didn't have a laptop in his baggage, though an X-ray machine indicated he did. Screeners searched the man's bags and found a clock with a 9-volt battery taped to it and a copy of the Quran; the screeners also found that the soles of the man's shoes had been hollowed out. No explosives were found on the man, but a TSA screener reported that "the shoes had been tampered with and there were all the components of (a bomb) except the explosive itself."

Seriously, people: When you're at the airport, just do the whole security thing like you're supposed to, all right? A security breach at Bush Intercontinental Airport yesterday delayed security screening and outbound flight at two terminals — and it was all because someone apparently got confused on an escalator.