Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
On 26 Sep 2013, at 05:29, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: Mornington Crescent. (with apologies) Surely only at the end of his trip? Given he wants Euston, it's less silly than it sounds, but Camden is a bit gauche. I'm rather fond of the Great Northern Hotel at King's Cross (or at least it's a favourite brunch spot), but it's definitely not a cheap option. Alternatively how about somewhere lovely in Somers Town (Euston)? Bloomsbury would also be convenient and is quite beautiful. Again, an easy walk into Euston. Fitzrovia would put you one stop away (Warren St) or a slightly longer walk and is also quite lovely with some great eating. James
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
Given that you're only going to/from the station a couple of times, I wouldn't worry about it. Euston is well connected and there's always magic black chariots. Pick where you want to stay and enjoy that. Also, Camden is a great place but is a bit short of hotels, except the Holiday Inn. Go central if you can.
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
Randy J. Ray writes: Last time I was out, I stayed near the theater district district. I was a pleasant walk to the Metro station, one of the major ones (Victoria, maybe?). But it wasn't the station I used to get to Telford, and *this* time I expect to be carrying a little more luggage (I plan to bring a few models to the show). So I would prefer to get a hotel closer to the Metro station that I'll be leaving from for Telford. Is it the total distance from your hotel to Euston that you wish to minimize, or the distance walking? If the latter, then any hotel near a Tube stop that has direct trains to Euston would do, and what matters is how close the hotel is to that Tube station, not how many stops it is from Euston. My experience of staying in various central London hotels is that nearly all of them are either eye-wateringly expensive (generally chains) or shockingly shabby (often small guest houses, some with ‘hotel’ in their names; in some cases they've been verging on unhygienic). We'll also be spending a couple of nights in London in November, where we found a Premier Inn quoting £189 for 1 night, which is crazy money for a budget hotel. So we went for the St Paul's YHA. We've stayed there before. It's pleasantly done out, inexpensive, very centrally located, and without the massive ‘ick’ factor of the cheap hotels I've stayed in. In general I recommend it. (I can't remember how much lockable storage space you get in a shared room though, which is obviously relevant to somebody travelling with models.) http://www.yha.org.uk/hostel/london-st-pauls I would also like to find a place that will make it (relatively) easy to get to Heathrow Monday morning for my flight out. Last month we stayed at the Jurys Inn in Hatton Cross, before our morning flight from Heathrow. It's very close to Hatton Cross Tube station (there's just one building between the two, albeit a reasonably sized one), which is on the perimeter fence of Heathrow; it's just 1 or 2 stops on the Tube to your terminal. The hotel was fine, and the staff friendly: http://heathrowhotels.jurysinns.com/ Good luck with sorting it out Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
On 26 September 2013 06:14, Randy J. Ray rj...@blackperl.com wrote: So, what I could use help with is this: Firstly, can someone identify for me what the Metro station is that I would be leaving from to go to Telford. Then, what postal code(s) should I look for hotels in? I figure I'll use hotels.com or something like that to actually find a place in my budget range. But I don't know where anything is, and without my A-Z I can't even look things up! Lastly, suggestions for a place, or at least the postal codes to look in, to stay on the 10th as well. You'll travel to Telford (via Birmingham/Wolverhampton) from Euston rail station. It's accessible by at least 3 Underground lines (you'll want to get to Euston or Euston Square underground stations). It's not a very interesting area but James already suggested some nearby. As Dave says, it's not hard to get to Euston, you can always take a taxi, better to stay somewhere you like the look / sound of. Postcodewise you're talking NW1 I think. Do understand that cheap hotels in London are not cheap and tend to be appallingly low quality. I'm not sure why you consider an outdated A-Z essential, just use Google Maps like everybody else does. /joel
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
I've got one word for you : Priceline. You can easily get sub 100$ per night and have a 4*, depending on period. YMMV. I wouldn't worry about the station, you can get to Euston from anywhere in zones 1-2 within half an hour max, and hotels tend to be near transport. Also don't underestimate the power of the red buses. On 26 Sep 2013 10:32, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Randy J. Ray writes: Last time I was out, I stayed near the theater district district. I was a pleasant walk to the Metro station, one of the major ones (Victoria, maybe?). But it wasn't the station I used to get to Telford, and *this* time I expect to be carrying a little more luggage (I plan to bring a few models to the show). So I would prefer to get a hotel closer to the Metro station that I'll be leaving from for Telford. Is it the total distance from your hotel to Euston that you wish to minimize, or the distance walking? If the latter, then any hotel near a Tube stop that has direct trains to Euston would do, and what matters is how close the hotel is to that Tube station, not how many stops it is from Euston. My experience of staying in various central London hotels is that nearly all of them are either eye-wateringly expensive (generally chains) or shockingly shabby (often small guest houses, some with ‘hotel’ in their names; in some cases they've been verging on unhygienic). We'll also be spending a couple of nights in London in November, where we found a Premier Inn quoting £189 for 1 night, which is crazy money for a budget hotel. So we went for the St Paul's YHA. We've stayed there before. It's pleasantly done out, inexpensive, very centrally located, and without the massive ‘ick’ factor of the cheap hotels I've stayed in. In general I recommend it. (I can't remember how much lockable storage space you get in a shared room though, which is obviously relevant to somebody travelling with models.) http://www.yha.org.uk/hostel/london-st-pauls I would also like to find a place that will make it (relatively) easy to get to Heathrow Monday morning for my flight out. Last month we stayed at the Jurys Inn in Hatton Cross, before our morning flight from Heathrow. It's very close to Hatton Cross Tube station (there's just one building between the two, albeit a reasonably sized one), which is on the perimeter fence of Heathrow; it's just 1 or 2 stops on the Tube to your terminal. The hotel was fine, and the staff friendly: http://heathrowhotels.jurysinns.com/ Good luck with sorting it out Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Alan Mosca wrote: Also don't underestimate the power of the red buses. to not get you somewhere on time. buses are fine but if you need to be soemwhere at a certain time like say catching a train you should leave yourself a relatively large margin of delayedness. -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
Yeah, but I already won. Ungetlemanly as my strategy was. -- Sent from my phone, so please excuse spelling mistakes, top posting, brevity etc. On 26/09/2013, at 17:03, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 Sep 2013, at 05:29, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: Mornington Crescent. (with apologies) Surely only at the end of his trip?
Re: Robot turtles
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:55:24PM +0100, Martin Robertson wrote: So I was too slow to get in on the '1st 10' as arranged by el Smyler. Am told there are 5 others thus far in a similar state, so : I'll poke my head above the parapet long enough to make the same offer to organise a group purchase. currently 2 confirmed; msg off-list please! cheers, mart. Thanks for volunteering to herd cats [in your own self interest :-)] I've just done 10 for vienna.pm/2 in Salzburg/a friend There are about 36 hours left. I hope this all works out, else I'm going to be left looking a bit silly. Nicholas Clark
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, but I already won. Ungetlemanly as my strategy was. -- Sent from my phone, so please excuse spelling mistakes, top posting, brevity etc. You were in Nidd. Also, we were playing Mornington Croissant.* James * http://www.isihac.co.uk/games/mcvariations/mc-m.html
Re: Robot turtles
On 26 September 2013 11:08, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: Thanks for volunteering to herd cats [in your own self interest :-)] I've just done 10 for vienna.pm/2 in Salzburg/a friend There are about 36 hours left. I hope this all works out, else I'm going to be left looking a bit silly. Have just placed an order for another LPM-10, although have only had 6 requests; They'll make neat gifts - unless anyone else wants to get in on 'em? cheers aye, mart.
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
Morning tongue croissant! On 26 September 2013 11:22, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, but I already won. Ungetlemanly as my strategy was. -- Sent from my phone, so please excuse spelling mistakes, top posting, brevity etc. You were in Nidd. Also, we were playing Mornington Croissant.* James * http://www.isihac.co.uk/games/mcvariations/mc-m.html
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
Alan Mosca writes: I've got one word for you : Priceline. OK, I've never used Priceline before so just had a look to see what they can find for our London trip. You can easily get sub 100$ per night and have a 4*, depending on period. The dates were fixed for us (we're attending a wedding). I dispute “easily”. By default it searches all of London, which is surely useless for everybody. It doesn't allow narrowing down by postcode or Tube station. Admittedly it does offer to search by proximity to golf courses, but regrettably directions for venues tend not to mention those in the way they do postcodes and stations. So I'm left reading through a long list of ‘other landmarks’ to work out which one is likely to be nearest to where we want to stay, then going through the resulting hotels list, adjusting the distances given to allow for the delta between the location we actually want to search near and the one it let us search near. At which point it turns out that some of the purported hotels in the list are actually hostels or apartments. So far as I can tell we can get actual, non-scummy, hotels for $182 or $239. Which admittedly is less than £189, but still way over the $100 you mentioned. Oh, except that there's an extra mysterious[*] ‘taxes and fees’ added at checkout, which I'm guessing is VAT, making the $182 actually $218 per night (which, when translated to sterling, is exactly the same price that Booking.com quote for that room on those dates). [*] Mysterious in the sense that they don't even try to justify how they calculated that particular charge for this booking, just waffling on about the kinds of things they cover. YMMV. Apparently it did. Having already checked Booking.com, Priceline didn't find anything additional or provide better rates. And nor was it's interface so slick or process so helpful that I'm wishing I'd used it instead of Booking.com. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
You could try http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ [2] It certainly appears to be able to position your hotel better than Priceline. I would echo what other people have said about picking the hotel you like, based on price, facilities, scenic location, etc., but don't worry *too* much about proximity to the station. You can get pretty much anywhere in central London in about 20-30 mins by tube/taxi. My suggestion would be to look at the slew of (relatively) recently built entry-level chain hotels (Novotel, Premier Inn, etc.) that have been built south of the river in Southwark[*] between Waterloo and London Bridge. Both of those stations are on the Northern Line, which will take you direct to Euston. David [*] Pronounced Suth-ark ;-) On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:55:37 +0100, Smylers wrote: Alan Mosca writes: I've got one word for you : Priceline. OK, I've never used Priceline before so just had a look to see what they can find for our London trip. You can easily get sub 100$ per night and have a 4*, depending on period. The dates were fixed for us (we're attending a wedding). I dispute easily. By default it searches all of London, which is surely useless for everybody. It doesn't allow narrowing down by postcode or Tube station. Admittedly it does offer to search by proximity to golf courses, but regrettably directions for venues tend not to mention those in the way they do postcodes and stations. So I'm left reading through a long list of 'other landmarks' to work out which one is likely to be nearest to where we want to stay, then going through the resulting hotels list, adjusting the distances given to allow for the delta between the location we actually want to search near and the one it let us search near. At which point it turns out that some of the purported hotels in the list are actually hostels or apartments. So far as I can tell we can get actual, non-scummy, hotels for $182 or $239. Which admittedly is less than £189, but still way over the $100 you mentioned. Oh, except that there's an extra mysterious[*] 'taxes and fees' added at checkout, which I'm guessing is VAT, making the $182 actually $218 per night (which, when translated to sterling, is exactly the same price that Booking.com quote for that room on those dates). [*] Mysterious in the sense that they don't even try to justify how they calculated that particular charge for this booking, just waffling on about the kinds of things they cover. Links: -- [1] http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/ [2] http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
May I recommend airbnb.co.uk This is often staying in the spare room of someone's home, so the price tends to be reasonable. They show the locations on a map, so it is easy to pick a suitable one. I use it regularly and like it. Andrew On 26 Sep 2013, at 11:55, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Alan Mosca writes: I've got one word for you : Priceline. OK, I've never used Priceline before so just had a look to see what they can find for our London trip. You can easily get sub 100$ per night and have a 4*, depending on period. The dates were fixed for us (we're attending a wedding). I dispute “easily”. By default it searches all of London, which is surely useless for everybody. It doesn't allow narrowing down by postcode or Tube station. Admittedly it does offer to search by proximity to golf courses, but regrettably directions for venues tend not to mention those in the way they do postcodes and stations. So I'm left reading through a long list of ‘other landmarks’ to work out which one is likely to be nearest to where we want to stay, then going through the resulting hotels list, adjusting the distances given to allow for the delta between the location we actually want to search near and the one it let us search near. At which point it turns out that some of the purported hotels in the list are actually hostels or apartments. So far as I can tell we can get actual, non-scummy, hotels for $182 or $239. Which admittedly is less than £189, but still way over the $100 you mentioned. Oh, except that there's an extra mysterious[*] ‘taxes and fees’ added at checkout, which I'm guessing is VAT, making the $182 actually $218 per night (which, when translated to sterling, is exactly the same price that Booking.com quote for that room on those dates). [*] Mysterious in the sense that they don't even try to justify how they calculated that particular charge for this booking, just waffling on about the kinds of things they cover. YMMV. Apparently it did. Having already checked Booking.com, Priceline didn't find anything additional or provide better rates. And nor was it's interface so slick or process so helpful that I'm wishing I'd used it instead of Booking.com. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
Perl Doom and Gloom
I've noticed a couple of threads in here recently about how perl's situation is all doom and gloom. Just so you know, I've noticed a handful of new, very non-trivial perl projects to produce important infrastructure of international importance over the last few months.
Re: Perl Doom and Gloom
Op 26 sep. 2013, om 13:37 heeft Kieren Diment het volgende geschreven: I've noticed a couple of threads in here recently about how perl's situation is all doom and gloom. Just so you know, I've noticed a handful of new, very non-trivial perl projects to produce important infrastructure of international importance over the last few months. Oh... I am really all ears now !! Trying to convince the University of Amsterdam that their students should know (about) Perl. Just in the process of organising the next PerlWorkshop in the Netherlands. There is enough debate on why one should or should not use Perl, but interesting examples of where we apply the 'duct-tape' brings it all more close to home.
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:14:07PM -0700, Randy J. Ray wrote: So I would prefer to get a hotel closer to the Metro station that I'll be leaving from for Telford. Euston. You'll probably need to change trains at one of the Birmingham stations. See http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/. I would also like to find a place that will make it (relatively) easy to get to Heathrow Monday morning for my flight out. Heathrow is at the end of the Piccadilly line, and has trains from Paddington. If the flight is horribly early, I'd just stay at one of the ghastly hotels at the airport*. Otherwise, stay near Paddington, as the train is a lot quicker than the Piccadilly line. * I've not stayed at any of them, but they're at an airport so are bound to be horrid. Everything to do with airports is. So, what I could use help with is this: Firstly, can someone identify for me what the Metro station is that I would be leaving from to go to Telford. Then, what postal code(s) should I look for hotels in? I figure I'll use hotels.com or something like that to actually find a place in my budget range. Booking.com knows about areas of London, so no postcode necessary, just tell it Paddington or Euston. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig You can't spell slaughter without laughter
Re: Perl Doom and Gloom
On 26/09/2013 12:37, Kieren Diment wrote: I've noticed a couple of threads in here recently about how perl's situation is all doom and gloom. Just so you know, I've noticed a handful of new, very non-trivial perl projects to produce important infrastructure of international importance over the last few months. Kieren, could you private msg me a list of them please. I know someone with a secret community project who needs some info. Kind regards Mark -- Mark Keating BA (Hons), Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder. Managing Director: http://www.shadow.cat For more that I do visit: http://www.mdk.me
Re: Perl Doom and Gloom
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 09:37:39PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: I've noticed a couple of threads in here recently about how perl's situation is all doom and gloom. Just so you know, I've noticed a handful of new, very non-trivial perl projects to produce important infrastructure of international importance over the last few months. I've been programming Perl since 1995. I have heard people talking about the doom and gloom of Perl ever since (and probably before, people did as well). 18 years later, and I'm still programming in Perl. Nowadays, even as a developer, with 100+ coworkers who also program in the same language. Abigail
Re: Perl Doom and Gloom
On 26 September 2013 12:53, Mark Keating m.keat...@shadowcat.co.uk wrote: On 26/09/2013 12:37, Kieren Diment wrote: I've noticed a couple of threads in here recently about how perl's situation is all doom and gloom. Just so you know, I've noticed a handful of new, very non-trivial perl projects to produce important infrastructure of international importance over the last few months. Kieren, could you private msg me a list of them please. I know someone with a secret community project who needs some info. Kind regards I know my last employer was very reluctant to know let anyone know we used perl internally, as he felt if there were security holes found in the language we'd be open to hackers. Not that his paranoia was entirely unjustified (the company would be a bit of a high profile target at times), but I'm not convinced it was always necessary. -- And a big Hiya goes out to the fun crew from GCHQ.
Re: Perl Doom and Gloom
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 01:21:25PM +0100, Dominic Thoreau wrote: I know my last employer was very reluctant to know let anyone know we used perl internally, as he felt if there were security holes found in the language we'd be open to hackers. Not that his paranoia was entirely unjustified (the company would be a bit of a high profile target at times), but I'm not convinced it was always necessary. Would he have been equally paranoid with any other language? Or just open source hippie code? :-) -- And a big Hiya goes out to the fun crew from GCHQ. I wonder if they're using Perl. We've never seen any bug reports from them. Nicholas Clark
Re: Perl Doom and Gloom
On 26 Sep 2013, at 14:27, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 01:21:25PM +0100, Dominic Thoreau wrote: I know my last employer was very reluctant to know let anyone know we used perl internally, as he felt if there were security holes found in the language we'd be open to hackers. Not that his paranoia was entirely unjustified (the company would be a bit of a high profile target at times), but I'm not convinced it was always necessary. Would he have been equally paranoid with any other language? Or just open source hippie code? :-) -- And a big Hiya goes out to the fun crew from GCHQ. I wonder if they're using Perl. We've never seen any bug reports from them. They are (or at least some of their people attend Perl training courses) nic Nicholas Clark -- Corbas Consulting / @CorbasLtd Digital Publishing Consultancy and Training http://www.corbas.co.uk, +44 (0)7718 906817/+44 (0)1273 930765
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
The Shard effect, perhaps ? Maybe the Novotel or Ibis on Blackfriars Road or the Premier Inn on Great Suffolk St... /david On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:53:16 +0100, Smylers wrote: david writes: My suggestion would be to look at the slew of (relatively) recently built entry-level chain hotels (Novotel, Premier Inn, etc.) that have been built south of the river in Southwark[*] between Waterloo and London Bridge. As it happens the Premier Inn that quoted us £189 for a night is in London Bridge. Hopefully Randy will be less unlucky than we were in finding a reasonable price. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/ [1] Links: -- [1] http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
Re: Perl Doom and Gloom
Nic Gibson writes: On 26 Sep 2013, at 14:27, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 01:21:25PM +0100, Dominic Thoreau wrote: -- And a big Hiya goes out to the fun crew from GCHQ. I wonder if they're using Perl. They are (or at least some of their people attend Perl training courses) That's just a pretext for spying on Perl hackers. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:20:08AM +0100, Smylers wrote: [...] We'll also be spending a couple of nights in London in November, where we found a Premier Inn quoting £189 for 1 night, which is crazy money for a budget hotel. That'll be because they're pricing for business travellers spending somebody else's money. Look for a BB near a Victoria or Northern Line station in Zone 2 so you can easily get to Euston without too much faff. You can get a room for £40-50 per night in Clapham, for example.
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
You're not using the 'name your own price' tool are you? Try that. You can narrow it by area, star level and bid your own price. On 26 Sep 2013 12:07, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Alan Mosca writes: I've got one word for you : Priceline. OK, I've never used Priceline before so just had a look to see what they can find for our London trip. You can easily get sub 100$ per night and have a 4*, depending on period. The dates were fixed for us (we're attending a wedding). I dispute “easily”. By default it searches all of London, which is surely useless for everybody. It doesn't allow narrowing down by postcode or Tube station. Admittedly it does offer to search by proximity to golf courses, but regrettably directions for venues tend not to mention those in the way they do postcodes and stations. So I'm left reading through a long list of ‘other landmarks’ to work out which one is likely to be nearest to where we want to stay, then going through the resulting hotels list, adjusting the distances given to allow for the delta between the location we actually want to search near and the one it let us search near. At which point it turns out that some of the purported hotels in the list are actually hostels or apartments. So far as I can tell we can get actual, non-scummy, hotels for $182 or $239. Which admittedly is less than £189, but still way over the $100 you mentioned. Oh, except that there's an extra mysterious[*] ‘taxes and fees’ added at checkout, which I'm guessing is VAT, making the $182 actually $218 per night (which, when translated to sterling, is exactly the same price that Booking.com quote for that room on those dates). [*] Mysterious in the sense that they don't even try to justify how they calculated that particular charge for this booking, just waffling on about the kinds of things they cover. YMMV. Apparently it did. Having already checked Booking.com, Priceline didn't find anything additional or provide better rates. And nor was it's interface so slick or process so helpful that I'm wishing I'd used it instead of Booking.com. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
Peter Corlett writes: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:20:08AM +0100, Smylers wrote: We'll also be spending a couple of nights in London in November, where we found a Premier Inn quoting £189 for 1 night, which is crazy money for a budget hotel. That'll be because they're pricing for business travellers spending somebody else's money. On a Saturday night? Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
Re: Robot turtles
On 26 September 2013 11:31, Martin Robertson mansionhouseproje...@gmail.com wrote: Have just placed an order for another LPM-10, although have only had 6 requests; They'll make neat gifts - unless anyone else wants to get in on 'em? and they're all gone. two more reqs subsequently recvd, so maybe someone else'll step up? cheers aye, mart.
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
Alan Mosca writes: You're not using the 'name your own price' tool are you? Ah, I clearly hadn't spotted that in the interface, nor realized that's what you meant by your “one word”. Try that. Ah, yes. That will give a 4-star hotel for $125 a night (what a bid of $100 became once mysterious taxes and fees were added on). You can narrow it by area, star level and bid your own price. True, though the areas are fairly large (12 areas cover all of London), and you don't know at the time of booking which hotel you're getting — which means you can't do things like check they can provide a cot before paying and committing, let alone see how far they are from the nearest Tube station (or which line they're on), look for guest reviews, and so on. We wouldn't've risked that for our trip, but I can see it being useful for some. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
Re: Perl Doom and Gloom
On 26 September 2013 23:37, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed a couple of threads in here recently about how perl's situation is all doom and gloom. Just so you know, I've noticed a handful of new, very non-trivial perl projects to produce important infrastructure of international importance over the last few months. Weird. I've been getting an opposite effect myself. Maybe I'm just ignoring the doom and gloom crowd. But I keep discovering cool new stuff turning up, stuff that makes it even harder for me to ever use something that isn't perl. Also, some of us are writing books! :D #youdontknowperl /shameless self promotion -- Kent
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
On 26/09/13 10:42, Alan Mosca wrote: I've got one word for you : Priceline. Er.. http://booking.com (well known supporters of all things perl)?
