More Railway Madness

Remember yesterday's post, where I was bemoaning the ludicrous cost of travelling by rail from Edinburgh to Birminham for Novacon? I took brixtonbrood's advice and tried various versions of splitting the journey.

Book as single journey: £100 per person.

Book as singles to/from Doncaster, return Doncaster to Walsall: £65 pp.

Book as singles to/from Crewe, return Crewe to Walsall: £43 pp.

...and going via Crewe is actually an hour quicker than the route suggested when booking as a single journey.

Bugger the Turing Test. A convincing AI will be one that can consistently find the cheapest route to travel on the British railway network.

iCarpalTunnelSyndrome!

Regarding this story about the US blogger who got a 300-page itemised iPhone bill, something is puzzling me.

How the hell does anyone send 30,000 text messages a month?

Assuming that Ezariak sleeps for five hours a day, then the rest of the time she would have to be texting every sixty-eight seconds. One thousand times, for nineteen hours solid.

Or am I missing something?