Mike Little’s Journalized

I’ve just found out about Google Catalogs.
Really interesting. They’ve scanned, OCR-ed and catalogued (pun intended) thousands of mail order catalogues. All searchable.

Try a search. It highlights your search term on the catalogue pages. Click on the image and you zoom into the scanned page with the item you searched for. At the bottom are contact details; web site, phone number, etc.

What an amazing idea!

The tickets finally arrived this morning! Less than 48 hours before we fly. I still would not recommend Skydeals.co.uk. Jan finally believes we are going on holiday now.
Phew!

Well it’s less than 60 hours until we fly out for our holiday in Turkey AND WE STILL HAVEN’T GOT THE TICKETS! We ordered the tickets through an on line company called SkyDeals.co.uk. I DO NOT recommend them to anyone. I think we have been treated shoddily. The latest, after waiting on the phone for more than 15 minutes and being subjected to adverts for other services, is that they say the tickets were sent first class post on Monday and we should have got them today. But they have used the wrong post code so it may be tomorrow! In the meantime I’ve persuaded them to allow us to pick up the tickets at the airport in case they don’t come tomorrow.
At least I managed to find out with which airline we are flying and from which terminal. It does also mean that we will have to be at the airport for about 4am!

The weather had better be good after all this!

I’ve continued using test-driven development for project Dandi. It really is helping me be more productive. Of course it helps that I’ve come up with a halfway decent Object Oriented Design too.

Check out eXtreme Programming techniques today.

Mike