There was no Internet connection at my second hotel, that actually worked. I really do think its a necessity to have a good and reliable Internet connection for your visitors. Watching TV and reading books used to be what you could do in a hotel-room, now however, the Internet is the main source of information for many people, so why not give your hotel an edge and use it as a selling point?

I am sitting in a hotel room once again, and I am going to be sitting in one until thursday. How do you feel about hotel rooms, and what do you do in one of them? I normally spend most of my awaken time by my laptop, which it is critical for me to have an internet connection. I am quite concerned that the hotel I will be staying at tomorrow, does not have an internet connection, in which case I will be spending the evening watching movies I suspect.

Arthur C. Clarke passed away today at his retreat in Sri Lanka. Besides fighting the nazi’s by helping develop radar facilities, he is also behind many of the conceptual ideas behind space travel and sci-fi in general. He was always very philosophical about mans role in the universe, advocating space splunking whenever possible, and was of the belief that we would reach Mars by 2000. Alas, not everything worked out the way he had hoped, but he was a great thinkerer in the area nevertheless.

I just learned that a local handball team (HF-Mors), apart from being sponsored by various sponsors the normal way, by having their expenses and training gear taken care of, also got their mortgage/rent paid. I think this is crossing the line for a small time handball team. I think the sponsorships should cover broadly for more exotic things as well, not just the mainstream stuff like handball/football. If the sponsorship is primarily to gain revenue, then it should be seen that way, but these sponsorships are being pushed to the public as being good for the local community.

A 16 year old kid was recently beaten to death for no apparent reason. Senseless violence an indication of a worse society? I think so. I have no more to say about this than whats already been said. We should all be ashamed.

A plane from Copenhagen to Amsterdam, was cancelled yesterday, because of fear of terror. A group of middle eastern men (all of whom are airline pilots in an Iraqi airline), was the cause of the fear to a Dutch man. One of the middle eastern men, had to use the restrooms, and, like me, you and everybody else, left his luggage (carry-on-bag) with his friends. This apparently was a cause for alarm, the police was called, the plane cancelled, and all for nothing.

America’s war on tourism: airlines to foot the bill for fingerprinting foreigners as the leave the US Scotland Yard wants DNA samples from 5-year-olds in case they grow up to be criminals; Oyster card records to become part of “war on terror” I mean, come on. Do you really think this sort of thing is sensible to do? If you read the first article, you will know that the US laws, regarding scanning/fingerprinting/probing of foreigners coming to the country, have only found 1000 Visa-Over-stayers at a price of $15.

Please dont try this at home, but if you do, id like to see the outcome:

“we think a life without internet may be worse than one without money.” — Gizmodo

Been doing alot this week. Mainly been studying some more. Couple of important chapters, I need to get down really well. How do you get hard information into your brain, and get it to stay there, and understand it for good? Im not sure, but Im starting to think that writing down things manually really helps me personally. On another note, I am getting really screwed over by the IRS. They are really starting to piss me off.