So I would love to be using the chrome OS now but I think as they say a solid state drive would really polish it off.
The thing about conversing with normal people who do not get the techy thing or the interactions between your computer and the internet is that the conversations are just hard work – this is quite succinct.
If you want to get your head so far into it that it is hard to keep a handle on reality get hold of Metatropolis - a book where several authors do their own stories based on a future world that they agree on. It is fascinating but the last story deals with AR and virtual worlds within virtual worlds – great stuff!
I listened to it on audible link this link is to the UK site as I live here and can only have an account here. I do need to mention Leo Laporte and TWIT as the podcast recommended it and got me into audible.
While mentioning Leo did you see the twit cottage on gigapan link – great technology.
Thanks Leo
As a techy who has found himself without a phone recently I must now find a replacement but as there are several different decisions to be made. Here in the UK some of the names of phones are different than in the US e.g. our Motorola Milestone is the Droid in the US.
Decisions
On the last point I feel I am stuck. If I stay with my network I can get the HTC hero which is apparently getting an update to Android 2.1. If I am prepared to change network I can get the Motorola Milestone (droid) on T-mobile. This is a decision with and a decision without a keyboard.
I am not small and have fat fingers – which would this make more of a difference with soft or physical keyboard?
The Nexus One is rumoured for Jan 5th but on what network? and still a soft keyboard! with several more phones to follow but for various reasons I cannot wait (see fire).
Go on then what should I do ????
So there we are sound asleep after a very relaxed christmas day when we were woken be an odd sound. Much of the next 30 seconds or so involved swearing firstly about the fact that I could not work out the alarm on this phone then that the smoke alarm is faulty and I am taking out the battery……
It was around 2.30am – boxing day
The firemen told us that the fire had been burning for quite a few hours and had various conversations about candles and electrics. The top floor of the house which constitutes a loft conversion, which is our lounge, is no more. Mainly because of smoke damage as oppose to flames. There were 2 things of note for me in the aftermath of this event.
The time it had taken the the footstool to burn through had filled the whole floor with dense smoke. As the smoke increased it filled its way down the stairs and became a ceiling in the bedroom corridor where we had a smoke alarm. Had that alarm not worked by the time the footstool had burnt through we would have had the fire burn through and over the whole of the ceiling in my mothers room. The boys would have been next trapped and we may have escaped through a window as our room is in a different section of the house.
Got the boys up got the parents up, phoned the fire brigade and all out.
The fire dept were here in a very short time considering they are all on pagers and alarms. Two engines turned up silently lighting up the night like an old disco. Then the police, then lastly the ambulance who managed to sound the siren and wake those nearby that we had not woken.
The firemen may have wondered why I was smiling throughout but I was just so happy that the smoke alarms woke us. In psychological terms my wife was having a hard enough time with all this so I needed to remain up-beat.
Several hours later and all was well. Our next door neighbours had produced boxes of biscuits, chocolates and managed to find cups to give drinks to all these firemen and assorted others.
NO INTERNET !!
Funny how I lay in bed hours later after everyone was asleep and remembered the comments directed at those who tweet in times of crisis. I had not the ability to do this – the phone and internet was down. Normally I would just pick up my phone but the boy had got mine for xmas and, until I get my replacement, I was using a Siemens A60 that was left from a previous life. So no connection. This was however hours after the event but I must be one of those who would share the event given the opportunity. After the fact I decided to write this page before I shared it as it was not now an immediate response.
I am a techy. Are we going to have issues in a world of energy deprivation to come. What do you go through when the internet goes down or when sky box says “no signal is being received”? Thoughts for another post I believe.
We lost a few things to fire damage, and it got hot enough that the velux window has cracked full length, but most of the damage is due to smoke. It surprised me how much stuff we have in one room and how much is modern technology.
I always believed that I generally do not sleep deeply enough to miss events like this but I would not now put that to the test as this event happened on one of those few nights I slept very deeply.
check your smoke alarms – now!
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the silver is the side of our TV;)
drobo may live again we will see;)
bt home hub router is no longer – RIP
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Footstool saved the house… ;)
iomega stor center may survive after a clean