It’s a little embarrassing just how happy it made me to get our new broadband connection set up this morning. It’s a little sad, but it makes me very, very happy. 24/7 high speed internet access. Viva la revolucion!
Monthly Archive for April, 2007
While reading something on the internet the other day, I came across the concept of a modern day nomad. What a great word. Nomadic. It struck me that it pretty much sums up my life at the moment. I’m nomadic. I don’t exactly travel, I’ve hardly been to a tourist site in the last year. But I don’t stay in one place either. I’m not on holiday, I work, but I don’t work in one place.
So I reckon I’m a nomadic developer, although that sounds pretty geeky. I was thinking about the word entrepreneur, but it has all these weird connotations I reckon. So I think I’ll stick to nomad. I’m a nomad. Or for the Scots, am nae mad ken.
I’m living in a house with a cat…
So I thought I’d take this opportunity to try some animal experimentation. I’ve been arguing recently that animals have the same basic emotions as humans, love and fear. My motivation was more to play devil’s advocate than anything else, but it strikes me that this cat provides an interesting testing ground.
So, if you have any suggestions of experiments I could try, please let me know. Note: I use the term experimentation loosely. So animal rights activists, relax, I’m not going to microwave the cat. Animal abusers, take your suggestions elsewhere, I’m not going to microwave the cat. Harm free suggestions only. For example, could I train the cat to ignore me during the working day, but come say hello at 6pm exactly? Oh the possibilities…
I’m currently online via dial up! I had problems with my modem under Linux, so I connected a Windows laptop to dial up, plugged in my wifi router, enabled Internet Connection Sharing, and bingo, I’m online, wirelessly routed into dial up. It’s very retro!
It has been an adventure. Thursday morning NOT_BILL (new window) and I hitched out of sunny little Nelson down to Christchurch. We stayed with the awesome THURSTY (new window) and then after a fairly wasted night, hit the road again bound for Dunedin where we caught up with VIAJEN (new window) and partied with the formidable Brett Herman (new window).
Then we drove down through Invercargill to Milford Sounds, camped, all three of us in a 1.5 man tent (oh that was fun, NOT) and then up to Queenstown to catch up with KERSEF (new window), JUKIEN (new window) and OmJoshuaOm (new window). We stayed in Queenstown for a night, then I hit the road back up to Christchurch.
A couple of very friendly German lads gave me a lift right to the very door of my home for the next 2 months. Gotta love hitching.
It has been confirmed. For the next couple of months I’m going to be looking after a 7 year old called Gavin, in exchange for room and board. Bring on Christchuch…
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