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Several years ago I took my wife for a romantic weekend in Paris. I saved money on the hotel by booking into a three-star in a "good" location, near several stings we wanted to see. The travel agent told me over the phone that star ratings in Paris are tough so a three-star was more like a four-star elsewhere. This was total BS! The room had a couple of small windows which let us see the crumbling brick wall of the next door hotel only about four feet away. If we opened one of the said windows and looked down into the filthy, narrow alley we saw the trash and smelled the incredible stink that made us shut the window quickly and never open it again. The room was barely bigger than the double bed and wardrobe with a very narrow door into the "on-suite luxury bathroom" which was a shower stall and toilet unit and the smallest sink I have ever seen (about 1 pint capacity to overflowing). The whole thing looked like it hadn't been decorated since before the war (the First World War, probably).
Speaking with some other guests we found out that most of the rooms were like this and yet the hotel still rated three-stars - probably because of it's location. Oh, and the food provided in the laughingly-named breakfast room - which was actually a curtained-off space between reception and the TV room/lounge was crap - even by French breakfast standards.
I never plan to go to a Paris hotel again. If I visit Paris again it will be a day trip via train from somewhere else.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The Travel Agent said: so a three-star was more like a four-star elsewhere He sure as h**l got that the wrong way around!!! I've been in "5*" hotels in Paris that a B&B in Blackpool could put to shame.
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I've stayed in some excellent places in France, met some fine people, eaten some superb food, drunk very good wine.
And I've been to Paris, where none of the above have ever occurred.
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OriginalGriff wrote: And I've been to Paris, where none of the above have ever occurred.
Yep, so true.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Never been to Paris and don't plan to. Hate cities.
That AB's/Guiness Drinkers game was a close shave. Wouldn't have minded if the Irish had won, they would have bloody deserved it. Plus my father in law is Irish so he would have been (extra) drunk for a couple of weeks.
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SeptimusHedgehog 151576 wrote: I survived the French last night when tbe boks beat France
Nobody cares about rugby in Paris.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Perhaps they were out-of-towners at the stadium.
I believe the train companies don't run trains at 1805 and 1815 either. The times are painful reminders of years gone by.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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It does rather, but my only concern would be: where does it go to ... um ... micturate?
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OriginalGriff wrote: It does rather, but my only concern would be: where does it go to ... um ... micturate?
That would explain some of the outages?
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nice
www.dirkstechblog.blogspot.com
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I have added my word press technical blog feed to code project. If I update the word press article is it automatically updated the related code project article or should I have to manually update that?
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Not necessary. Sometimes you need to modify the styles, it may looks different with respect to your original article that is posted in your blog. That's it.
If you do not STEP FORWARD, You'll always be in the SAME PLACE
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Already read. But couldn't find correct answer
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Well, how about updating your blog article, and see what happens? No harm in trying!
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Yes, I already tried. It was not synchronized. I just need to know is there any way to do that?
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In the Technical Blog FAQ;
Item 10: You can always edit manually
Item 13: Have you waited at least this long
Item 16: Check what is being reported at last polled or last updated.
Have you gone to your "My Articles" and clicked on the "Technical Blogs" tab and check it is listed there.
Remember your blog posts will be treated the same as Articles, these go through moderation process, so could always be stuck in the queue, or are being rejected for some reason.
If you are still having problems, take it to the Site Bugs and Suggestions forums and ask there. The CP Team will help.
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Thank you Dave. I have manually updated my article.
Thanks for the quick reply.
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No seriously! I have been asked to upgrade my entire team to "MVC ready" in 15 days!
So any and all help will be appreciated!
Kind Regards,
- Will
william@enziq.com
www.enziq.com
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Fire them all and start interviews on Monday?
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I have a team of 5 - and I can hardly afford to restart the entire division and submit them to the Onboarding rigmarole!
Kind Regards,
- Will
william@enziq.com
www.enziq.com
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It's about the only way you can be sure to get a team of five fully up to speed with a "new technology" in two weeks. It's way too late to organise a course; there are books and tutorials called "learn MVC in 15 days" (generally with numerous exclamation marks in the title) but my experience with such books in other fields are that you can get the basics, but nowhere near enough to be fully competent. Heck, at the end of one you don't generally even have a clue what you don't know - which is worse than not knowing what you should know (if you see what I mean).
Good luck - but I think it is an unrealistic aim, and you are going to get burnt badly on this one!
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Go Agile, it will help solve any problem you may have, lack of time, insufficient funding, or support from The Client (Please dont forget to "Stand up" in the meetings)
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