I arrived in a wet and miserable Glasgow after the first leg of my journey late yesterday afternoon. I made up for that with a lovely evening being fed and watered by Anna and having a good catch-up. However I realised just how dependent upon Broadband I am when I realised that Anna's Broadband provider had been changed and that I couldn't log on to the router: the password on the router didn't work. In fact after dinner Anna discovered from her son who had set it up that the password had changed it and after a few hours I was connected again. However it did make me think quite hard. I actually got quite agitated by the inability to attach myself to my cyberworld via my own laptop.
A few days ago our news had reported upon the effect that having a day completely removed from all electronic media had had on some students who took part in an experiment. I have to say that I thought that they over-reacted. Now I'm not so sure that I wouldn't have reacted in the same way. To some extent I think my reaction was due to the unexpected nature of the withdrawal. Even so I think I'll trty and avoid it again.
This will be my last post for a couple of days unless I have a few minutes to spare in Heathrow Airport and can log on. In a couple of hours I shall be setting off for Glasgow airport and the main leg of the journey. I shall hopefully arrive in Napier at 0930 on Saturday NZ time which will be about 2130 on Friday UK time. Of course the time difference will alter again in a couple of days when the UK daylight saving/British Summertime ends.
I'll post about the journey on this blog and then I shall be back on A Hebridean in New Zealand. I hope that you will follow me.
A few days ago our news had reported upon the effect that having a day completely removed from all electronic media had had on some students who took part in an experiment. I have to say that I thought that they over-reacted. Now I'm not so sure that I wouldn't have reacted in the same way. To some extent I think my reaction was due to the unexpected nature of the withdrawal. Even so I think I'll trty and avoid it again.
This will be my last post for a couple of days unless I have a few minutes to spare in Heathrow Airport and can log on. In a couple of hours I shall be setting off for Glasgow airport and the main leg of the journey. I shall hopefully arrive in Napier at 0930 on Saturday NZ time which will be about 2130 on Friday UK time. Of course the time difference will alter again in a couple of days when the UK daylight saving/British Summertime ends.
I'll post about the journey on this blog and then I shall be back on A Hebridean in New Zealand. I hope that you will follow me.
I can quite happily go without a connection for quite a while - I once went 10 full days without any internet connection, watching TV or reading newspapers.
ReplyDeleteWhat I find weird is how it takes me a day or so to figure out what most of the news is about having missed the first articles on certain stories.
I have to say a 3G iPhone is reducing the anxiety!
ReplyDeleteSafe trip and welcome back for saturday
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I have certainly built my habits around quickly accessible information. It would take weeks for me to adjust to a different mode, almost like learning how to get around without the use of motors!
ReplyDeleteI find it refreshing once in a while to not "be connected" to anything. Free. That's the word, because there are so many expectations by others to always be available in one form or another.
ReplyDeleteI picture you arriving to a glorious summer day in NZ!
I hope you have a really thick, gripping novel!
ReplyDeleteSafe and peaceful travels.
I think you're right, it's above all the unexpected breaks in internet communication that annoy us. Didn't you have a mobile broadband as well? Or is that just in NZ, perhaps. I hope you'll find everything in working order at that end :)
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