{"id":17,"date":"2005-05-24T20:20:52","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T09:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=17"},"modified":"2014-03-29T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:30:53","slug":"gday-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"G\u00e2\u20ac\u2122day Perth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Touched down in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofperth.wa.gov.au\/\">Perth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernaustralia.com\/en\/\">Western Australia<\/a>, this afternoon in what is my first visit to the wild wild west.<\/p>\n<p>After quickly (surprised? I was) locating my luggage I was promptly shuttled to the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheraton.com\/perth\">Sheraton hotel<\/a> and checked into my home for the next few days. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a tiny room with a separate bathroom that includes a bathtub. Unfortunately no spa bath or balcony, I do have a pretty good \u00e2\u20ac\u201c albeit 60 degree \u00e2\u20ac\u201c view of the Swan river and peak of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankwest.com.au\">BankWest<\/a> tower. Unfortunately there is an ugly beige building blocking the cityscape.<\/p>\n<p>Much to my astonishment, this hotel (well, room) has Ethernet connectivity! Much to my amazement, the instructions on how to hook up a notebook read\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Important note: This system has been tested with Windows Me\/NT\/XP\/2000\/9x, Mac OS 9\/X, and Linux\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>My godfathers!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the hotel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new slogan should be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sheraton: the Linux conscious hotel\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s standard DHCP. If that was the pleasant surprise for the afternoon, the cost of the service was the reality check. You have the option of:<\/p>\n<p>$9.90 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Laptop connect 1 hour(s)<br \/>\n$24.95 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Laptop connect 24 hour(s)<\/p>\n<p>Ouch! I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll stick with dial-up. BTW, the person who approved those options needs a grammar lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, there is a decent size desk with a lamp and a power point conveniently situated just above the desk (don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you just love when the power point is under the desk near the floor). Also, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good amount of slack with the phone cable (don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you just love when they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re bolted down).<\/p>\n<p>Anywho, better head down the lobby, dinner and drinkies awaits\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Rodney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touched down in Perth, Western Australia, this afternoon in what is my first visit to the wild wild west. After quickly (surprised? I was)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daytoday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}