The invisible veteran
I spent the weekend on the outskirts of the Gold Coast, an area where Vodafone reception is shamefully non-existent. That meant basically no Internet for two days, and no stories published other than the ones on Lifehacker. It also served to remind me that people who deliberately decide they are going to spend less time online are insane.
As a result of being offline, I only found out belatedly that I’d got picked as ITJourno Of The Week on the self-same site. Yet again, I can’t resist polishing my ego by quoting the relevant bits:
In a short week that was totally dominated by the Apple iPad, there were few real stand-out stories. However, Angus Kidman combined a story that went global with a string of his usual solid reporting for Lifehacker and other outlets – enough to get the prize from us this week. Kidman’s selection is also a bit of a hat-tip to a stellar January for the veteran tech hack (yes, sorry to say you’re now officially in the veteran class, Gus) who has produced quite an incredible body of work so far this year, with dozens of reports from both CES and the Linux Conference last week in addition to his regular rounds.
And those Lifehacker stories:
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Too bad about the loss of reception, that is typically a problem that most vodafone mobile subscribers encounter once they leave the ‘city’.
Even when in the city the amount of bandwidth that a vodafone user has access to is woefully too small to be shared out among the many users. The contention ratio must be so high so as they can make more money to pay for all the minimal infrastructure and the shareholders.
:)