Rant 219 6/8/12 Subject: Loss of signal based annoyance

Rant number 219

We live in a pretty connected world now.

At any moment, be it through TV, radio, computers, phones, tablets etc etc, you can find out an awful lot of information about just about anything.

My phone particularly, can tell me many many things about the world. It can tell me news both national and international. It can tell me gossip. Tell me what to eat. What to drink.

To do any of this though, it needs to be connected to the internet, which needs internet signal.

Now, there are several ways to access the internet these days:
Wired Lan - which is bulletproof but rather irritatingly involves wires going everywhere.
Wireless Lan - which beams the internet around you within a localised area.
3G - which beams the internet around you out and about.

For the most part, my annoyance falls with 3G. Its around in many places, but its not consistent. This means that you have to jump around like a nutter to get hold of the precious internets- floating in the area like pollen.

The connections always drop of course, when you are in the middle of things. My internet for instance dropped in the middle of this rant, causing procrastination while I tinkered to fix the issue!

Bloody internets. Sooner or later they will come up with a new way of beaming it around - probably involving lasers (I hope so, I like lasers!)

Rant over.