For the love of blog!
September 22nd, 2008
Unique Hotel Room Accoutrements #2: Only in Paris does one bottle of wine and three glasses make sense in a bedroom
The Ingres web team recently added a tool to my blog called Wassup which provides me with real time statistics on my blog traffic. It’s interesting to see exactly how people wind up here; from people searching for “The View” and “The First Wives Club” who probably feel like they’ve stepped into a parallel universe, to people looking for more details on “Open Source Security Best Practices” who hopefully found something of interest. I can also see what operating system and browser you’re using and to the five of you out there who are persevering with Windows 98 I say upgrade to Linux now!
There are hundreds of people with an RSS feed to my blog, who I guess would be my regular readers, if only I blogged regularly. I had no idea until this week just how many of you there are out there, so I’ve decided that I owe it to you guys to blog more regularly. I’ll try to keep them short, interesting and amusing. As always I’d appreciate your thoughts on blog topics and frequency!
Continuing on my unique hotel room accoutrements theme from last week – only in Paris does one bottle of wine and three glasses make sense in the bedroom!
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:46 am
Obviously it’s one each for breakfast, lunch and dinner. What did you do with the other two bottles?
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 am
It will be fascinating to find out who wineds (sic) up on this blog looking for wine recommendations in Paris, do please share. I trust we’ll find out what has taken you to Paris?
And, yes the revolting pun was intended. Sorry.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:02 am
Picking up the Hotel wine theme…
No pictures of the bottle but in the Hilton Cyprus they don’t expect you to drink as much as they provide HALF a bottle of Greek wine and two Glasses in their Rooms - maybe they know that you will not want more!.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:03 am
In response to Jope:
What took me to Paris? An Air France jet?
I’m speaking on a panel at Paris Capitale du Libre (http://paris-libre.org/) on Wednesday. While I’m here, I’m also addressing OW2 (www.ow2.org) which Ingres Corp joined today
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 am
In response to KeithB:
This is a half bottle. The photo may be deceptive.
Amusingly there’s no water in the room and no mini-bar. I woke up at 3am absolutely parched and had to choose between water from the bathroom faucet and the bottle of wine…You’ll never guess which I chose
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:23 am
The funniest thing thing I’ve had in a hotel room was when I was snowboarding. For some reason, there were several copies of “Cat Fancier” magazine. I was staying with my brother at the time, we couldn’t stop laughing for hours
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:37 am
I would like to see more of this ‘unique hotel room accoutrements’ stuff’. It is really fun. I guess you chose the wine
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