The internet here at the University of Essex has been zooming between deceased and intermittent all morning, turning all these computers into environmentally unfriendly paperweights. Man, have I become an on-line junkie or what?<\/p>\n

I was actually forced to spend the morning reading<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Reading things printed on paper!<\/em><\/p>\n

Good thing I had printed off some papers I needed to review, or would have been completely<\/em> adrift.<\/p>\n

Now I get to find out if I can actually sneak this through one of the tiny windows of connectivity and get it out there in the world, a tiny digital distress signal in a little WordPress bottle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The internet here at the University of Essex has been zooming between deceased and intermittent all morning, turning all these computers into environmentally unfriendly paperweights. Man, have I become an on-line junkie or what? I was actually forced to spend the morning reading! Reading things printed on paper! 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