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                Observations about a room at a Howard Johnson

Actually, I didn't get to sleep until 8:00 am. One of our servers had crashed
and we had to remotely reboot it. Anyway, it's now 12:45 pm and the 4½ hours
of sleep really did wonders, and now I'm cognizant enough to give you some
observations about our room here at Howard Johnson [1]:

* The National Weather Service [2] has issued a snow blizzard warning for our
 room.
* The epileptic-inducing light in the bathroom.
* Smirk noticed this large monitor in the room. It's not hooked up to any
 computer we can notice, nor is there any keyboard to be found. We're both
 still puzzled about it's function.
* The invisible webproxy that helpfully “translates” HTML (HyperText Markup
 Language) entities (even though they're URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
 encoded in a webform) into some alien character set (I'm guessing WINDOWS-
 1251). It also inserts extraneous carriage returns in data submitted
 through a webform (I used the email interface last for the previous entry
 [3]—for this one I used the web interface). [On second thought, it might be
 the webbrowser that's screwing me up. I'll have to test this when I get
 home. —Editor]

Anyway, time for the shower.

[1] http://www.hojo.com/
[2] http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/08/20.1

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