AND they accepted – in the Hyatt Regency 🙂 – thats one night free 🙂
I’ll let you know in ten minutes how we do on the car rental!
hehehehe – we are being cheeky and asking for a four star hotel for 40 quid a night in chicago now 🙂
Woohoo – the holiday is on! We get a decent holiday flight to Chicago, and by using priceline we saved 118 pounds on two tickets so we got quite a bargain. The funny thing is that the site reckoned we would not get the tickets when i put the original price in. It recommended putting in a price that was only 10 pounds cheaper than the list price! I ignored the advice but upped the offer by 10pounds and it was accepted. AND it is a direct flight (When I checked the internet there were three cheapish flights, two direct and one with a change, so I just hoped that we got the direct flight.) Thats twice Priceline has come up trumps! Cracking!
Kristen’s car has been officially been declared a writeoff and they are giving us 1600 quid for it 🙁 However we have sourced a Fiesta for 1000 so we end up better off AND we get 30quid back from the insurance as the fiesta is cheaper to insure! I had delayed putting the car pictures online due to the number plate and things, but it doesnt matter now!
Oh – and the Audi that Kristen drove into is also a writeoff – oops!
Xp seems to be running really well on the old machine – I must say that I am impressed with the speed of it so far…..mind you, this is a fresh installation with no bloat in Windows at the moment. It’s been activated with MS and I just need to download the service pack for it now.
Why does XP take so long to install????? (Don’t answer that!) I mucked up my mandrake installation so thought i’d repartition the disk and put xp on it. I have a 120 day eval from MS so I’ll see how good it is at home with all my hardware and stuff. It’s not on the main pc as I value that just a little bit! That is running 98 at the moment but needs to be updated. Norton Anti-Virus uses memory and then it complains that my drive C is full, with 1.5GB of disk space on it. A quick reboot later and its all hunky dory again…but its a pain to do that every other day.
I never really understood the difference between passive and active mode on ftp. I do now!
Fired up the Linux box this evening, and for the first time the update routine worked and downloaded all the patches (of which there were several) AND I didn’t need to reboot 🙂
Update I actually did this last night as I was again posting to the wrong blog – oops!
The first ever smiley, but according to discussions on the register, other people have claimed to use it in punch cards before this…so it may not be 🙂
Neat Boulderdash game.