This is a taste of the future

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Thu, 2005-11-03 20:58

I am sat upon the 21.07 train from London victoria to Brighton after attedning a book launch for Blackspring Press in London tonight and now I can connect to the internet on the train.

for free

for the moment

this is just so strange. I am relatively new to the wonders of wi-fi and I've never tried this before... so I'll be reading in and using my time on the train to good effect.

Weird or what?

Thu, 2005-11-03 21:04

tcook

Mind you - it disconnected me as I tried to post that and it took a while to get back on.. but in the end it worked! Ah, brave new world!

Thu, 2005-11-03 21:22

maddan

the wonderful thing about wi-fi, is that when ours stops working, we just can just use the neighbours'

Thu, 2005-11-03 22:03

2Lou

Iâ€™m still in awe of my laptop. A laptop for Â£300 odd quid and itâ€™s faster than our home machine! The home machine that was the fastest thing on earth, around about last weekâ€¦ Years ago, when a friend and I ran a limited company, you had to write off the value of your hardware over three or four years (canâ€™t quite remember) when all our stuff was technically superseded within 6 months and worth half its asset value. It was patently unfair even back then. Have they changed the rules, I wonder? Always loved the Simpsons episode when Apu explained his college professor had convinced him that the technology of the future would keep getting bigger and more expensive.

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Mon, 2005-11-07 06:19

elainevdw

They only got cell phones working in BART here in San Francisco this year. Wow, do I feel behind the times. ;) WiFi is fabulous, until it suddenly disconnects, and your boyfriend starts hurling things at the walls because Final Fantasy XI shut down in the middle of an important battle. Not even your neighbor's unsecured wireless can save you then!

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