Nothing much
Just to say that I’m posting this from the canalside. The weather’s nice, and I decided to see if I could get a wireless signal from outside my apartment, and whaddyaknow, I can (on that unprotected “linksys” network that I mentioned earlier).
However, the connection keeps dropping and I can’t see the screen very well in the sunlight, so it’s not exactly perfect. I also neglected to take any sort of camera so you’ll have to take my word for it until I can get back.
I just got an ant in my keyboard. I had to blow it out. That wouldn’t look very impressive if it had got into the insides. “Hi, this is Applecare, I’m afraid our service doesn’t cover invertebrate damage”.
Cue space-filling on the subject of how futuristic this all would have sounded a few years ago, and how primitive it will sound in a few years’ time, blah-de-blah. It would be nice to be able to retain the wonder at technology that you had when it was new, but it’s all about the novelty really; once it’s existed for a certain length of time it’s “god dammit, useless sub-etha link can’t even reach Neptune, all I’m trying to do is upload this blog post of my entire sensorium, am I really paying for this?”
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rob Said,
March 28, 2004 @ 7:03 pm
fridge what the hell have you done to your site, whats all the no remote access signage about? and wehat have you done to your formatting… you are scaring me…
fridgemagnet Said,
March 28, 2004 @ 7:06 pm
The design’s been like this for ages… I just put the remote linking thing in recently, but to be honest I might just take it off again, since nobody really steals my images much. I was doing it so I could practice using .htaccess files on the server.
Stuff in images/crap is still postable.
dailynightly Said,
March 28, 2004 @ 10:38 pm
A month or two ago, we had an ant problem in our house and I woke up one morning to realize that I had left my iBook near the ants and it was absolutely FILLED with ants, probably drawn to the remaining sugar from one time when I spilled sparkling cider in my keyboard.
It was unpleasant. I think I managed to avoid squishing any in the keyboard, though.
fridgemagnet Said,
March 28, 2004 @ 10:59 pm
Nooo! iBook full of ants… badness! Think of all the little ant screams as they hide under the wrong keys!
Cider on keys is bad too. After my beer-on-laptop escapades last year I’m very sensitive to sugary drinks near computers, and cider’s going to be even worse than beer.