My phone line went down yesterday and took my broadband connection with it.
Wow! It is only when you’re disconnected do you realise how many times a day you check something on-line.
Being ‘always-on’ makes you ‘always-on’.
But how much more productive was I yesterday because I wasn’t able to periodically check e-mail, news feeds, photo sites, magazine sites and all that? And what exactly did I miss out on yesterday because I wasn’t on-line? Well, not very much actually: a lot more e-mails and links to Crystal thingy.
In the days of continuous news feeds and 24-hour news channels it is easy to forget that (real) news doesn’t really happen 24 hours a day.
So thanks to Eric for a loan of his WLAN this morning. I really do need to be on-line for my business but probably not quite as much as I think I do!
And finally if anyone needs to contact me urgently please call. If I don’t answer, please leave a message. I’m not on regular e-mail until this is sorted. In fact given the nature of what I do, this is usually the case.
087 683 8511