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:
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