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« Conferencin' | Main | A Thousand (+64) Words on Web 2.0 » October 7, 2005Mine Was A Very Nice Hotel(With apologies, for the title, to "Yours Is A Very Bad Hotel" which ranks as one of the best, and funniest, uses of PowerPoint in the known universe). Web 2.0 ends today. And thus, with a heavy heart (and a heavy room-service bill) I've packed up my room, stuffed my belongings back into my Black Suitcase of Death, and checked out. I'm sorry to see the hotel go. I've been staying at the Pan Pacific, which is just blocks from the Argent (where Web 2 is being held). To say the hotel is nice is to say that Cameron Diaz "has a good personality." My room looked like something off the set of "Pretty Woman" (and a damn sight better than the Palo Alto Super 8 that sheltered me the last time I was down here). It had pretty much everything you could ask for: spacious main room, tasteful decoration, gi-normous bathroom, nice work area (marble desktop, Aeron chair, in-room high-speed Internet), flat-screen TV, complimentary chocolate, hotel bathrobe. Heck, they have a Bose Wave Radio for the alarm clock. (No, really.) Maybe this will help illustrate: the Pan Pacific is the kind of hotel where they have bottled water on the end-table, each of which has a very nice note that lets you know you can drink the refreshing beverage, and that, should you choose to do so, a $5 charge will be added to your bill. I don't stay in hotels like this very often, but I whenever I do I find my tastes becoming more ... refined. Mary used to talk about turning in to a "three star hotel girl", meaning her tastes had upgraded over time from hostels to low-end hotels to hotels with, say, hot water in the tub. I must confess that I'm feeling the siren song of nice hotels, myself. (Oh, and I was kidding about the room-service bill.) Posted by Gavin Shearer at October 7, 2005 10:01 AM. Posted to MSFT. CommentsI was going to send you an e-mail asking you what you thought of the Level 3/Cogent dispute, but I decided it would be more appropriate to ask you the question (and have you answer it) via the blog. I'm really curious to hear what you think. Posted by: Richard Barrett Post a commentThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) |
