Right, I'm up with my grandma for Christmas. She (and a few others from this branch of my family) live on Rousay in Orkney. If you run over to Google Maps and look at Rousay, you'll see that it's ... isolated. Needless to say, I'm back to dialup. I made my Toshiba Satellite A50-112 laptop's software modem work! It seemed to be harder this year than it was last year. Here's what I had to do. Maybe someone else will find this useful!

Right, that's enough from me. Sorry for spamming the planets. You can kill me when you next see me if you want to.

I thought this was a nice real-life analogue (sp?) of that great Unix lesson, which I ignored to my cost a while back. So I was all geared up for going to a party in [some place about 2 hours by train from Oxfjord] tonight, and phoned the host to say I was running a bit late:

(ring ring ring ring ring ring ring)

'lo!

Hi. So I'm not going to be able to get there till about 8.30, rather than 7. That okay?

Yeah, no problem. A lot of people are doing the same.

Okay, cool. If no-one else is there, you can just give me directions and I'll walk it.

Awesome! See you tomorrow!

Yeah, see y... you what now?

Didn't you get the text?

(I had got it, and hadn't read it properly. Good thing I'm running late, or I'd be exactly 24 hours early. :-)

Also, I appear to have invented including links to earlier posts. Why has no-one thought of that before? ;-)