Monday, 28 July 2008

Marginalised countries form list

I am sick and tired of not being able to select Catalonia when an Internet form asks to select my country. This is why I have had the idea of creating a country list form so everybody can suggest their 'invisible' country and I'll add them into the list. I have started by adding Catalonia, Scotland, Galicia, Basque Country, Wales, Quebec, Corsica and Tibet, but there are dozens of other countries not recognised internationally which could be inserted into the list, so please suggest some and spread the word so no country in the world is missed from this list. Please feel free to copy it and use it in your websites so everybody can select their country and are not marginalised anymore.


You can copy the code from here:


And see how it looks here:

These are the added countries:

Thursday, 10 July 2008

Mad with travelodge

I have a job interview (wish me luck) in a city of the midlands and since I have to travel from Edinburgh to there and is over 400Km of journey I will have to sleep for one night there. When I was in Inverness I slept in a Travelodge and found it to be quite good value for money. Per person it was not expensive and the quality of the room, with TV, sofa and en-suite bathroom pleased me.

So, why am I mad with Traveloge I hear you say? Well, I have been trying to book a room for two hours and I still haven't been able to do so. I have tried using Visa, Visa Electron, Mastercard, Catalan accounts, Spanish accounts, Scottish accounts and nothing. Each single time I got an error message as feedback. It has been quite fustrating. What I will do, since Travelodge doesn't love me is book with my old French buddies of the Accor group. They have never let me down before.