Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Review: Bakkah Arac Hotel, Makkah, Saudi Arabia



Coordinates: 21.404648, 39.830497
Google Maps Link: https://goo.gl/maps/EPi3BxtJeEC2

Tips for Travelers:
  • You can turn on the TV and see live video of Haram and can make your plans according to the crowd.
  • If you are a light sleeper then take a room away from the lifts so that the noise from lifts doors opening/closing don’t disturb your sleep.
I booked 4 rooms, the hotel was more of a 4 star than a 5 star, I visited it along with 3 families on 29th October 2015.

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Positives:
  • Arrival at the hotel was welcoming, receptionist was very professional, they offered me hot towel, Zam Zam water and dates
  • Good safe car parking was available in the basement
  • Room was spacious and had free fruit basket, 1 liter mineral water, tea/coffee etc.
  • They offered us 1 mattress free of charge
  • On request they provided an iron stand free of charge
  • The provided 3 keys for each room which was very convenient
  • Breakfast was tasty and good variety was available
  • Shuttle service was always available, it took sometimes up to 10 mins for the bus to move but we never had to wait on the footpath for the bus to arrive
Negatives:
  • Half of the lifts stopped working at peak time (from Friday morning till night)
  • The receptionist in the morning shift couldn't understand English thus it was difficult to communicate
  • Size of washrooms were 2 small, Shower knob was not working, Washroom door lock was not easy to open/clock
  • Soundproofing of the rooms was poor, I could hear noises from next room and corridor while trying to sleep
  • While booking I specially requested for a quiet room, not near lifts, the room was indeed far from lifts but on Saturday morning construction work started outside the room window and it was very noisy, couldn't sleep properly
  • It was also difficult to darken the room properly in day time, some gaps were left in the curtains thus it was difficult to sleep
  • Pillows were very uncomfortable
  • Wi-Fi was very slow most of time
  • There should be at least 1 powerful light in the room, all lights were quite dim
  • The items at breakfast were not frequently refilled, it took a lot of time to get the omelets, Friday morning the omelets counter was crowded, Saturday morning the omelets serving person was missing
  • My Check-Out time was 1pm, I informed at the reception that I will check-out at 2pm and they agreed but I received a call at 1:18pm, waking me up and informing me that my check-out time was 12pm
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★★★★★ Bakkah Arac Hotel, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Just under 1 mile from the Holy Haram, Bakkah Arac Hotel has air-conditioned rooms with free Wi-Fi. It features a restaurant and a 24-hour front desk.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Code Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer v2.0.0


 
 
Code Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer v2.0.0
 
A collection of miscellaneous plugins for Windows Live Writer that use exploratory "hacks" to get around limitations in the Windows Live Writer API.
 
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Get Daily Summary of Ms Outlook Calendar Events as an Email (like Google Calendar)

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In Google Calendar there is an option to receive email on daily events, Google stopped providing free sync b/w Google calendar and Ms Outlook which made me leave the Google calendar, thus I started looking for a way to have similar email for events of Ms Outlook 2010 Calendar.

David Lee on Quora provided the solution. The above can be achieved by using a VBA script. Plz find below the script which should work on Windows computers using Office 2007 and later:

Instructions:

  1. Open Notepad
  2. Copy the code below and paste it into Notepad
  3. On line 10, edit the email address you want the summary sent to
  4. Save the file.  Name it anything you want, the extension must be .vbs
  5. Using Windows task scheduler, create a new task that runs each morning
  6. Set the task to run this script

Customization:

  1. If you want to send email to a 2nd email address as well then uncomment line 11 (remove ‘) and edit the email address
  2. If you don’t want to receive the confirmation notification then comment line 30 (add ‘)

 

   1: 'VBA Script to Send Daily Summary Email of Outlook Events
   2: 'Developed by David Lee techniclee.wordpress.com
   3: 'Little Modifications by Nauman Khan naumankhan.blogspot.com
   4:  
   5: Const olCalendarMailFormatDailySchedule = 0
   6: Const olFreeBusyAndSubject = 1
   7: Const olFullDetails = 2
   8: Const olFolderCalendar = 9
   9:  
  10: SendAgenda "someone@company.com", Date, Date
  11: 'SendAgenda "someone2@company.com", Date, Date
  12:  
  13: Sub SendAgenda(strAdr, datBeg, datEnd)
  14:     Dim olkApp, olkSes, olkCal, olkExp, olkMsg
  15:  
  16:     Set olkApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
  17:     Set olkSes = OlkApp.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
  18:     olkSes.Logon olkApp.DefaultProfileName
  19:     Set olkCal = olkSes.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderCalendar)
  20:     Set olkExp = olkCal.GetCalendarExporter
  21:     
  22:     With olkExp
  23:         .CalendarDetail = olFreeBusyAndSubject
  24:         '.IncludeAttachments = True
  25:         '.IncludePrivateDetails = True
  26:         .RestrictToWorkingHours = False
  27:         .StartDate = datBeg
  28:         .EndDate = datEnd
  29:     End With
  30:     msgbox "Calendar Summary Emailed"
  31:     Set olkMsg = olkExp.ForwardAsICal(olCalendarMailFormatDailySchedule)
  32:     With olkMsg
  33:         .To = strAdr
  34:         .Send
  35:     End With
  36:     
  37:     Set olkCal = Nothing
  38:     Set olkExp = Nothing
  39:     Set olkMsg = Nothing
  40:     olkSes.Logoff
  41:     Set olkSes = Nothing
  42:     Set olkApp = Nothing
  43: End Sub

 


If you are unaware of how to schedule a task in Windows Scheduler then here are the details:


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How to Automatically Run Programs and Set Reminders With the Windows Task Scheduler

 

Do you want your computer to automatically run a program, remind you about something, or even automatically send emails? Use the Task Scheduler included with Windows – its interface can be a bit intimidating, but it’s easy to use.

 






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While giving the path of the VBA script you will have to use a prefix ‘cscript’ to make it work properly. Details can be found in the answer given by Steve Kline on the following link:



























 






 










How to run a vbs file using task scheduler?

 


 






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If there is a possibility that the PC/laptop will be off at the scheduled running time of the script then you can use the following option:



























 






 










Will Windows Scheduled Tasks execute if the computer was off at the scheduled time?

 

If I schedule a task using windows task scheduler for, say, 2 minutes from now, and for some reason the computer is shut down 1 minute from now, and turned on 3 minutes from now, will the task that...

 






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