Monday, 02 April 2007

• xfromlondonx

  there are of course a number of differences between life in the us and here in the uk that i've noticed even during my short stay here. i'll elaborate on these later i suppose, but more to the point of my interest right now, i'm used to being able to find wireless internet pretty much everywhere i go, and at that free access nearly everywhere as well. so far here, even within the few restaurants (or the sole hotel we stayed in) that do provide free wifi, one is required to request the wep key for the connection. an unsecured signal ivariably means having to pay for it. even within universities or public libraries, both of which i tried, membership is necessary to log in.

  perhaps needless to say, for one whose employment, education, and much of lifestyle is connected (no pun intended) to being on a computer somewhere between 16 and 30 hours a day, this has been quite a change. it's somewhat freeing not worrying about what things i have to check on the computer -- but nevertheless i'm still checking on my emails from work to see what fun i will, eventually, have to return to. if i lived someplace like the large, bustling cities i've been visiting, i probably wouldn't want a job that so tied me to the computer screen -- but since there's not much to do around home anyway, it's not so bad. the internet, after all, is pretty interesting sometimes too.

  see you in a couple days.

  end::i guess for me it's easy this way

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