I just booked a couple of flights through FlightCentre online and I was amazed at how painless the process was. Having been used to comparing the prices on the seperate WWW sites for REX and QANTAS, it was good just needing to check one site. I got great prices, and they are booked. I was a bit disappointed that they did not ask for my REX frequent flyer card… I guess I will just have to present that at the airport.

I will probably drive to the airport. I will have to see if I can get any cheaper parking with my Airport ID. I doubt it. I could always park nearby, and get a taxi in, but that would be a pain coming back. Exactly the same reason why I don’t take the train… I do on longer trips, but not on an overnight…

The BBC have a good story on one of their reporters being stranded in a Russian airport for 10 hours. The bits I love from the article are “There are no trolleys, no porters – the check-in desks have been completely gutted – to register for your flight you have to lug your suitcases up steps, down corridors, and out into the airport’s backyard.“. and “Rather worryingly there’s a man selling Caucasian swords and daggers in the departure lounge and opposite him, over on the wall, is a list of local criminals wanted for murder. “.

Bugs

I have mentioned before about the outsourced coding and bugs. I found a minor bug in a database script I had written a couple of months back. It took all of 5 minutes to find, and two minutes to fix… The only complication was I needed to fix it on my laptop, and in Albury, and in Canada. Cest La Vie. What I wanted to do was plot this map. The lines may be confusing, because some position reports went missing, and it was only a guess as to where the map lined up with the world. But it looks semi-cute.