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I am sitting in a car outside my brother’s house. He has wireless broadband and by devious means I have acquired the access code. I am, at this moment, stealing his broadband connection to upload a blog.
My own broadband is up the spout – which is why I have been uncharacteristically quiet on the blog front recently. Orange, my broadband “provider”, is apparently unable to fix the problem. My impotent rage and the hours of telephone calls to Orange has left me exhausted.
To add insult to injury, I’ve just rung my esteemed Editor, Massimo Pini, to explain the problem. He seems to find the idea of my writing a blog from a car parked furtively outside my brother’s house quite comical. “I like blogging in my car,” he sang, with evident amusement. “It’s not quite a Jag-u-ar.”
I couldn’t tell him what I thought of his hilarity, as I want to keep my job.
I must admit that I also find the idea of you writing a blog from a car parked furtively outside your brother’s house quite comical!
On a more serious note, when wireless broadband services were first introduced in UAE, furtive parking for the purpose of tapping into wireless broadband accounts became a high profile issue…. probably due to a perceived loss of potential revenue. However, such practices now seem to be very rare occurrences.
AlfaMartini | 12 Jul 07 - 17:36