You learn something new every day

If you put %%talklinks%% in two places in a custom style, you can have comment links at the top and the bottom of journal entries. I suppose that could come in handy.

(It makes sense, but I wasn't sure whether you could use one property [such as %%talklinks%%] more than once in a variable [such as LASTN_EVENT], so I tried it out.)

Stella passed!

Stella just called me from her mobile phone to tell me that she has passed her final examination!

She was worrying about this, since her English is rather bad. For this reason, she had to sit an oral exam as well, and her teacher had told her she needs at least a 4- (on a scale of 1=best to 6=worst), and 5 is already a pretty decent grade for her.

She did end up with a 5-; however, because she had a 1 in another subject and no other 5s, she still passed the overall examination. She's rather elated :) And glad that everything's over now.

I'm going to YAPC! I'm going to YAPC!

So, it appears that things have finally panned out, more or less. I've booked a hotel and a train ticket.

The train ticket ended up being more expensive as what I had read as return trip was actually only the price for a one-way ticket. Confusing, since some of the fares were only available if you bought a round-trip ticket.

However, due to a train accident (which I don't remember hearing about, but then, we have no television so my news coverage is often spotty), they're apparently inspecting all sleeper carriages and so only have Liegewagen (sleeperettes? couchettes?). And despite what the website says, they apparently only have 6-bunk compartments, but 4-bunk ones. However, there's a special price for a bunk in a 6-bunk couchette compartment, which ended up being about what I'd thought the whole trip would cost in a 2-bed compartment with real beds.

I also saw, thanks to acme via scribot_feed, that the YAPC talks are up, and mine's up there, too! Whee.

Must get around to preparing the presentation, then :)

(Oh, and pity I won't be able to take part at this year's p5p dinner--I see that they've planned that for the Saturday after the conference, and I'll already be back home then, since I'm not going by plane, which usually tends to keep you somewhere over the Saturday/Sunday night in order to get a decent fare.)