| Sunday, March 23, 2003 |  |
| St.Antonin |
 A good day, visiting Mark and Ronna who live close to the mideaval village St.Antonin. All very beautiful and idyllic. They're British ex-patriates. A splendid lunch outside in the spring sun, prepared with goodies from the market. Closest neighbors are a couple of kilometers from their house.
We also visited Montauban and Moissac. [ Diary | 2003-03-23 21:42 | 5 comments | PermaLink ] More > |
| Travel and technology |
| It is usually when I travel I notice a lot of things that aren't working very well, particularly in terms of technological methods of communication, Internet access, etc. I usually have the illusion I can just take a laptop with me and stay in touch with things as normally. But typically there are always things in the way. The laptop is a different computer than I normally work on, so I usually don't succceed in bringing everything with me.
I picked this hotel in part because they said they had Internet connection in every room. I called them up and they said they had high speed wireless networking for an extra charge. I thought that would mean Wi-Fi. What it meant was that I could browse the web through the TV, using an infrared keyboard. That was the 'wireless' part. Otherwise I'm stuck with a modem dial up. And this is when I realize that I appear the be getting around 2000 e-mails daily. Which takes about an hour to download. Mostly junk, automatic messages from servers, bounces from mailing lists, etc. At home it mostly gets sorted into folders and is largely invisible. Here I have to manually sort through everything, just to discover whether I actually got anything I need to deal with. [ Diary | 2003-03-23 21:53 | 2 comments | PermaLink ] More > |