Wireless in Starbucks
This is very cool. Iâm sitting in Starbucks eating a muffin for breakfast and posting to my blog through the wireless hotspot. Iâve just spent the past half hour dredging through and deleting about 70 spam emails, which slightly took the gloss off my current well-disposed-towards-technology mood, but itâs still cool. I feel really at home because thereâs a guy with a TiBook and an Apple T-shirt sitting opposite me. I would be more comfortable, but the air-conditioning is really fierce, and I feel like I need a coat on. Meanwhile, outside itâs lovely and balmy â Floridians are mad.
The preceding posts were written over a number of days and Iâve just dumped them on to the page in more or less any order (the date in square brackets is when I actually wrote the post to give you some idea of the timeline). This will probably be the last upload on entries until I get back, unless I decide to lug my laptop over here again before we go.
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Good to hear you're doing ok in the US. What's the attitude towards the war among the locals?----- While you've been on your jollies, some of us have been guest-blogging over at Troubled Diva.
You'll be used to the pressure, but the strain on a non-blogger of providing amusing? material to order has been hellish.
Anyway, I provided a link to you in my TOMMY article. Hope-U-like. Safe returns to you and Mr. bsag.Pick up gas-masks and bottled water on your way through Duty Free - they're like hen's teeth here.
by Mr.D. @ 27/03/2003 12:03 pm • Permalink •
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Lucky you. I had to dial long distance home last week while in Florida. And no computer access at the conference I was at. Moan. Luckily I was at SXSWi the previous week which was wireless throughout the conference.
Overhearing war talk in FLA is scary though. Hear any of it?
by jason @ 28/03/2003 12:03 pm • Permalink •
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Put simply the americans are more pro war and thier press is patriotically correct and supine in the face of an increasingly macarthyite society.
by dave murphy @ 02/04/2003 8:04 pm • Permalink •
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I didn't really hear a lot of extreme pro-war talk, though I was a bit sheltered in the first week by being surrounded by academics (and quite a few Canadians). I did see a hand-written sign by the side of the road that read "Now let's go get the French!". And we did see "Freedom Fries" on the menu. From what I see of the polls, the ratio of pro vs. anti is higher in the US than in the UK (about 75% pro compared to about 50% pro in the UK), but the real difference is in the media. On the TV especially, the coverage is very sympathetic to the government in the US. Since I've been back, I've heard about a lot of civilian deaths and incidents that reflect badly on the forces (US and British) from the British media that I didn't hear about in the US. Having said that, while we were in Orlando airport, we saw some Brits reading the Daily Mail with the headline, 'Blasting into Basra', and our hearts sank.
by bsag @ 02/04/2003 8:04 pm • Permalink •
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Iâm actually a Canadian living in America. I noticed that there is an overwhelming majority of people who believe that the american media is biassed and pro American. I say, How can it not be, they would be shot if they didnât make the american troops look like heroeâs. With that said, i was in Northern Europe last year and noticed that European media is very Anti-American. So you canât say that the American media is biassed when your own is just as bad, just the same as the arab media is extremely biassed against America and GRB. It was pretty disturbing to me to see such a bias which made me say to myself, âwhere would this world be without America.â America does not fight to take over countries as Stalinâs USSR did. It fights to free and liberate oppressed countries and peoples. So just remember that These 18 year old kids are going across the world to die in a place they didnât dream of dieing in. They are doing it to help people they will never see again. I am ashamed that my country could not decide on their own, weather to fight but had to rely on a defunct United Nations assembly who has ruling members that are socialists, republics and even communists. Something is wrong with that.
I hope Europeans realize that the desire for this war was merely to make the world a better place. No one but the American President had the balls to stand up to a rogue dictator. I say bye to the rape rooms and torture chambers, and bye to Saddam.
by Kinoli @ 29/04/2004 12:04 pm • Permalink •
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