Garden of Eden, no … of Cepheus
Readers of this blog will no doubt get sick and tired hearing about my “hot spots”, i e the places where I manage to get online access with my computer. But you better get used to it, it makes me so excited…
I have felt very unproductive and extremely offline since I came back from the USA. Since I have no broadband/DSL access at home, I have to rely on stone age-style with modem, which a) sucks b) is expensive. Here in the Old Town where I live, virtually noone seems to have a router for wireless access. And Rome was even worse than Stockholm as of lack of free hotspots.
But to my huge relief, I just discovered one – when sitting in my garden (in the block of Cepheus, in the medieval middle of the Old Town)! It’s not great – it’s actually not very stable at all, but it’s there.
I wish you could all see how beautiful it is here: with houses in blue, red, white, yellow, with trees, bushes, roses and other flowers, a fountain – and a blue sky, a warm sun, and cool breezes! A perfect office, indeed.
As soon as I have freed myself from the euphoria of being online here in the garden for the first time ever, or when I run out of battery power, I will start reading the course material that I just received – for a summer course I will attend at Oslo University in a few weeks. Very exciting – but too much to read for July!
/Gunilla
Isn’t it funny that the “Swedish IT wonder” seems to have disappeared? Or has it? I mean, most of the present IT companies goes well, but you can’t really notice it in the society. If Sweden should be a player in the international IT arena, free hotspots should be ubiquitous - not only in the very city centre of Stockholm. /Karin
Comment by Karin Lilja — Thursday, July, 14, 2005 @ 11:36:am
The Swedish IT wonder does indeed seem to have disappeared, albeit from my limited insight. There should absolutely be free hotspots in communities all over the country (I think I have written a post on that earlier).
I once found an article somewhere on the Net on an ambitious inititative in the minuscule city of Nora, which had become all wired thanks to local enthousiasts – and I know that Utö in the Stockholm archipelago is a hotspot, too. In fact, I believe parts of Lund is!
But the article on Nora was several years old, and the city doesn’t seem to have had many followers around Sweden… I think that the Swedish IT discussion was lost on wap and 3G, exactly at the time when it should have been focused on the cheap (isn’t it?) wi-fi technique!
Some PR is needed here. (Earlier this year, I tried to pitch articles on the efforts to make the huge city of Philadelphia into one big hotspot, i e on the interesting discussion on whether wireless access should be a public benefit or be offered by commercial enterprises. I tried with papers such as Ny Teknik, SvD Näringsliv, and a few others – but the editors were fairly un-interested or said they were going to write similar articles in-house.)
I try to preach the benefits of wi-fi technology to everyone I meet, and I realize that a lot people who could really use it – and who might already have the appropriate card inside their computer – don’t even know it exists.
/Gunilla
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