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defrogI have returned from Japan.
I have photos.
They’re probably good for at least a dozen posts. One day I may actually post them all. But for now it seems like too daunting a task, for various reasons.
Anyway, suffice to say it was a very busy week – although the reason I didn’t post anything whilst I was there wasn’t because I didn’t have time so much as I didn’t have any Internet connection.
Well, not one to speak of. As it happened, my hotel had free Internet in the rooms – but only if yr laptop has an Ethernet port.
And there I was with my new Mac Air, which is Wi-Fi only.
And there I was in a hotel whose Wi-Fi options were limited to either a pay service that only worked about 40% of the time, or a free service that either gave you 10 minutes of connectivity every three hours, or unlimited access provided you (1) let them spam you for six months and (2) provided them with a proper email address (i.e. no Webmail), after which you had to check yr email to confirm that it was yr email address – which you couldn’t do because you couldn’t access the Internet to confirm the email address until you’d confirmed yr email address by checking yr email.
See what they did there?
There was also the option of the coin-operated Internets in the lobby.
Ha ha. Very funny, Hilton.
Yes. So I had very little connectivity for the whole week. Which was a fine lesson in how the Internet has permeated our lives and how challenging it is to do without it, yadda yadda yadda blah blah blah.
The lesson: from now on I’m taking my four-year-old Macbook on trips because my new laptop is too advanced for some countries. (Or at least I’ll make a point of checking hotel web sites to make sure they have Wi-Fi in the f***ing rooms first.)
Okay. Broadcasting resumes.
Online and loving it,
This is dF
I have photos.
They’re probably good for at least a dozen posts. One day I may actually post them all. But for now it seems like too daunting a task, for various reasons.
Anyway, suffice to say it was a very busy week – although the reason I didn’t post anything whilst I was there wasn’t because I didn’t have time so much as I didn’t have any Internet connection.
Well, not one to speak of. As it happened, my hotel had free Internet in the rooms – but only if yr laptop has an Ethernet port.
And there I was with my new Mac Air, which is Wi-Fi only.
And there I was in a hotel whose Wi-Fi options were limited to either a pay service that only worked about 40% of the time, or a free service that either gave you 10 minutes of connectivity every three hours, or unlimited access provided you (1) let them spam you for six months and (2) provided them with a proper email address (i.e. no Webmail), after which you had to check yr email to confirm that it was yr email address – which you couldn’t do because you couldn’t access the Internet to confirm the email address until you’d confirmed yr email address by checking yr email.
See what they did there?
There was also the option of the coin-operated Internets in the lobby.
Ha ha. Very funny, Hilton.
Yes. So I had very little connectivity for the whole week. Which was a fine lesson in how the Internet has permeated our lives and how challenging it is to do without it, yadda yadda yadda blah blah blah.
The lesson: from now on I’m taking my four-year-old Macbook on trips because my new laptop is too advanced for some countries. (Or at least I’ll make a point of checking hotel web sites to make sure they have Wi-Fi in the f***ing rooms first.)
Okay. Broadcasting resumes.
Online and loving it,
This is dF
