IT IS THE MARRIOTT where most of the journalists at the Intel Developer Forum are staying.
Those include Eastern European journos, who are not used to being in hotel rooms where you can’t smoke under a penalty of $250 a day.
One of said hacks explained to me this morning how he satisfied his nicotine cravings. He went behind the desk, opened the window the tiniest bit, and puffed his smoke out of that crack.
What a palaver! Don’t these people realise that if you are a nicotine addict you can buy a small device, bung a nicotine capsule into it, and inhale with the drug satisfying even the most desperate cravings? You can buy these devices at Boots the Chemist in London, for about six quid. Many capsules are included in this price, and a packet of fags costs about six quid anyway.
They don’t smell of smoke, and you don’t face the risk of paying a $250 fine per day for contaminating the sacred Marriott chain of hotels.
We will see tomorrow if the first levy of $250 has been inflicted on the hacks in pain. ♦
