{"id":206,"date":"2001-10-18T22:57:16","date_gmt":"2001-10-19T03:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2001-10-18T22:57:16","modified_gmt":"2001-10-19T03:57:16","slug":"loss-it-represents-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"loss It represents only"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nIt represents only 1 ping every ten minutes, and in the space of ten minutes this DSL connection goes up and down more often than me on a good night.  In the time it takes me to write a sentence this link dumps me twice; that’s means either that I write very slowly, or that this connection is infinitely frustrating. \n<\/p>\n

\nYeah, I know, it’s a free connection.  All that green on the graph represents free bandwidth — how can I possibly complain, you might ask.  Well, for one thing, I am not sure it is free.  Somebody could show up tomorrow and hand me a bill for $2000.  Besides, I would have already found an ISP to adopt me if everything was not in flux — i.e.: I am going to move this week, next week, next month, or the month after next, and apart from that, ISPs are dropping like flies, declaring bankruptcy and vanishing into the bit-o-sphere as fast as I can look up their phone numbers. \n<\/p>\n

\nThe problem is not the spotty connection, though.  Used to be that green part of the graph was like a dense hedgerow; in it I hid.  Now there’s lots of splits and gaping breaches and there’s not a lot of bandwidth anymore to distract me from looking at myself.  You see, I don’t have a TV — right now, I don’t even have a phone.  I do everything here, at this screen, on this keyboard.  I watch the world, I learn, I relax, I run away.  But it doesn’t work so good anymore. \n<\/p>\n

\nI’m feeling kinda naked, and not in a happy sort of way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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