Honest Hotel of the Year Award
Don’t stay at the newly refurbished airport hotel at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta Airport. By their own admission they’re not as good as they used to be:
Category Archives: Non-tech
Catching the Spark
This is the week of hobbyhorses. I love sparklines though I’ve been very lazy in actually trying to make more use of them. Sparklines are simple little graphs that can pepper text to illustrate data. I went through a phase of using them a year ago on media coverage of technical stuff, the excessive online… Read More »
Hotel Complaints, Blackmail and Bribery
Why is it that big chains in the service industry assume that when you write to them complaining about something that you’re just out for a freebie? The thinking seems to go: this person is trying to blackmail us. So bribe them. Case in point: Just got back from a weekend at five-star hotel in… Read More »
SeaWorld Inventor Joins That Theme Park in the Sky
A moment’s silence please for the inventor of water parks, who has just died . I wouldn’t normally trouble you with this but I’m taking my godson and his shark-obsessed brother to SeaWorld in Jakarta tomorrow, so it’s one of those spooky coincidences you ignore at your peril. George Millay, invented SeaWorld in 1964 as an… Read More »
Morph: Where You Sit
I’ve been invited to join a bunch of interesting folk blogging at the Media Center Conversation, “a global, cross-sector exploration of issues, trends, ideas and actions to build a better-informed society. It’s a collaborative project that rips, mixes and mashes people from radically different spheres of activity and thought to share and learn from each… Read More »