Comments on: Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links – 4th January 2009

By: John Belo

John Belo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:41:22 +0000

Last time I was in London the WiFi was broken and not even the hotel staff had internet access… The previous time I managed to get miserable (but free!) WiFi access by placing my laptop near the window – thank God for that!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:14:39 +0000

@Andrew Mason:
Ahhh, Nostalgia – It ain’t what it used to be…

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:08:59 +0000

@Tom: BBC Model B, that brings back memories. My GCSE in computers (1989) was to write a program that calculated Golf Scores and gave hole averages etc. BASIC was so easy back then! I also had the Acorn Electron but I started with the ZX81 and Speccy..

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:59:30 +0000

@Andrew Mason:
Posh no lol, my first exposure to the land of the integrated circuit was the venerable BBC Micro at school back in ’82, remember fannying around with modems before the InterFangleWeb came about – 9600 was of course what it said on the tin but invariably due to line speed it would be knocked down to 4800, then 2400, then 1200 until finally the noise on the line dictated 300 – can you imagine Youtube clips on 300Baud – ‘it would certainly teach a lot of people the meaning of the word patience!

Connectivity will pretty soon be always on everywhere for zero cost given the UHF analogue network will be opened up for sale.

Bring back the horse, cart and candle!

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:37:55 +0000

@Tom:

Yeh, at least my Vodafone 3G card generally works when I need it to although sometimes only at 2G speeds.

9600 baud modem, you must have been posh My first was a 2400 baud, connected to Compuserve and other Bulletin Boards.

It just gets to me that the UK seems to charge a premium for Internet access when other countries always include it in the price.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:29:40 +0000

@Andrew Mason:
Like you say, they try it on big time with the charges!

My favourite is when you get the hotel which offers “Internet Access” and all you have available is access via the TV and still get charged an arm and a leg. Thankfully this is becoming rarer. I treated myself to a G1 for the new year whilst on the hoof – useful tool (bit slow though) and can use GTD with GMail.

Still, we’ll be looking back at the good old days soon when the Web N.0 world is so in our face we’ll think a green screen and 9600Baud modem was the mutts nutts in terms of a productive environment!

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:09:25 +0000

@Tom: Luckily I am back in the land of the connected, just a pain that I have no access in my Hotel. How can a 4 Star hotel not have WiFi?

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:39:24 +0000

Understand your pain w.r.t. UK hotels and WIFI reception – been on the receiving end enough. Normally see Basingstoke in passing on the train though (no connectivity there either but that’s great for GTD in it’s own right!).

All the best,
Tom