Broadband, baby!

So this is exciting: I’m on broadband!  Hubby’s mobile provider has come up with this little white doofer that plugs into the laptop, and if you balance it precariously on the bedroom windowsill at exactly the right amount of centimetres to the right of the dressing table and ensure that Venus is fully aligned with Pluto whilst silently praying to the God of Wireless Broadband, reciting the alphabet backwards and clutching your lucky rabbit’s foot: BINGO!  The little blue light flashes, and we’re miraculously transported into the 21st century! I do appreciate that the little white doofer with the flashing light probably has a proper name (73?  Thrifty?) but I don’t care, because it only bloody works!

Admittedly, trying to blog on a silly laptop keyboard, teetering precariously on a windowsill and sitting on a little stool has its drawbacks but hey, broadband is broadband.  I’ll be able to load Isit’s little video clips and actually see the photos that people send me too!

And Bert gets to stretch out on the bed and keep an eye on me while I type!  Ah, technology.  I wub it.

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8 Responses

  1. Thriftcriminal Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    Well, strictly speaking, the 3GPP standard would refer to it as a handset. The first thing it will do when it gets power will be to alert the NodeB of its existence using a PRACH preamble which is a standard gold code overlayed with a repeated hadamard sequence and a fixed chip by chip rotation…..

    Oh, wait. I’d call it a thingy. Also, don’t forget to bury a bulb of garlic at midnight on a full moon and walk widdershins 3 times around it :-)

    You might be able to get a wireless router and leave it plugged into that on your windowsill, thereby allowing you to blog in comfort from any location in your house, but it probably plugs into a USB port and I’m not sure wireless routers do those?

  2. Wee Jen Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    Gotta tell you - that broadband is addictive stuff. I’ve been mainlining it for a while now and if I use a computer somewhere else, I get exceedingly ratty if pages don’t load almost instantly.

  3. Moon Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    Wow, you will get colour telly next !

  4. 73man Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    Welcome to the land of streaming videos of skateboarding rabbits and 24 hour facebook.

  5. Isitjustme? Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    Woo Hoo!!! Congrats Missus!!!…you’ll be all over youtube now….

  6. Englishmuminireland Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    Thrifty: Ohhhh you do make me laugh. What’s a router? And what’s a USB port? And what’s a bulb of garlic? Joke!

    Jen: I’m the same. If a page doesn’t load by the time I’ve made tea and toast, that’s it. I’m gone. Lol x

    Moon: Oh we’ve got the biggest telly in Cavan already - no probs there. Anyway, I’m not talking to you since that crack about there being no Santa. Meanie.

    73: Skateboarding rabbits? Do tell!

    Isit: Ooh Youtube! What fun! Although I’ll settle for reading your blog without ‘internet explorer cannot display the webpage’ plastered all over it! x x

  7. Moon Says:
    February 21st, 2008 at 3:49 am

    I feel that is a little harsh …..and bears so s**t in the woods as well !

  8. Englishmuminireland Says:
    February 21st, 2008 at 9:08 am

    Moon: Harsh? First it was the disappearing cards, then the rabbit in the hat trick and now Santa? Shatter all my illusions why don’t you?

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