Too reliant on technology?

28 07 2008

Upon returning home thirty minutes ago (from a day that included three hours of strenuous yet hopefully successful negotiations and then a long look around the contents of a now defunt F1 team being auctioned off at the end of the week), I discovered that not only had my PC router decided to die, but that the weather was such that my Sky box cannot receive a signal.

My router being down means I cannot use the phone in my office, or get online to any of my systems, or check certain email accounts. I am posting this off my mobile phone, which is connecting only at the slowest GPRS speeds possible.

Therefore tonight I shall be forced to do something different. I am unsure as to whether read a book or to sit slowly rocking back and forth with a shotgun, waiting for the inevitable end of the world.

I shall either be back tomorrow, or you can read about my paranoid meltdown in all the major media outlets in the morning.