Now it starts to become clear how it is that RyanAir can basically give away seats on its routes: the flying is a loss leader for the upsold movies, snacks and so on. Can WiFi be too far behind? [points from Online Travel Review]
There’s a NetNewsWire 2 beta available now. NetNewsWire is my RSS newsreader of choice for the Mac; this new version is a long time coming, and I’m looking forward to exploring its new features.
Overheard this morning at the corner of Queen and Kent in downtown Charlottetown, two parking enforcement cops chatting about broken parking kiosks:
Cop One: That one up there is broken.
Cop Two: You mean that one with all the tree sap on it?
Cop One: No, that’s another one.
The Moon Handbooks come highly recommended: our friend Steve in Bangkok says their guide to Thailand is among the best (he lent us his copy when we were there, and it was very useful) and Edward Hasbrouck (whose own The Practical Nomad is published by Avalon, which publishes the Moon books) recommends them too.
But save our use of the Thailand handbook, I’ve never used them for other destinations.
Today I learned why: the list of countries they cover doesn’t include any countries in Europe, and as the balance of our travels in the past 10 years have been to European countries, there simply haven’t been Moon books for our destinations.
This is not entirely true: the Moon Metro series does cover several European cities.
Presumably this is all at least in part due to the fact that Avalon also publishes the Rick Steves guides to Europe (Europe Through the Back Door and related country or regional books).
I’m not a big fan of Rick Steves. I’m sure his advice and take on travel works for some, but I when I read his books, and watch his PBS television show I don’t see my approach to travel.
Speaking of travel, the big season finale of The Amazing Race is airing tomorrow (Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004) at 10:00 p.m. Atlantic on ATV (also on CBS, CTV etc. elsewhere). We’ll be watching. Go Chip and Kim!
I’ve added a new feature to the display of archived posts here, requested by my friend Oliver back in August:
What do you think of putting “next” and “back” buttons on the pages of your archived permalinks? The current set up makes it un-straightforward to read through a sequence of old entries, which I suspect must be a common desire (say, if one of your readers was away for a week and decides a month later to go back to read what she missed, or if a new comment on an archived blog peaks a reader’s interest in thoughts on that topic that you might have blogged in the hours or days immediately following).
Done. Good idea.
We recorded another episode of Live From the Formosa Tea House this afternoon (the first episode is here).
You can download today’s episode (it’s an 11MB MP3 file) or, if you’re using iPodder or its brethren, you can set up an auto-grab via RSS 2.0 enclosures from our RSS 2.0 feed.
Self-flagellation about this episode:
Listener feedback is, as always, welcome.
Update: Here’s Steven’s original outline for the show:
I’m not sure whether I’ll use RRDtool myself, but its website is worth a look: it’s an excellent example of thorough documentation for an application, full of examples, well-written prose and code. Bravo.
Zbigniew Brzezinski was on Charlie Rose tonight. I know little of his past or his present, but boy is he a good interview: every word well choosen, a very quick mind, listens to questions. I would welcome the opportunity to hear him speak someday.
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