This isn’t really a technology post. I have just had dinner in a hotel sports bar somewhere near the M25 outside London.
Initially I couldn’t get near the bar because the one barman was snowed under with customers attending a function that had closed the restaurant. I didn’t mind that because I don’t like being seen as a sad git reading a book on my own in the restaurant. I prefer to sit at the bar with a beer and a burger and then go back to my room to work/sleep/watch TV. I did mind it taking ages to get served with my glass of shandy (yes).
On this occasion the bar eventually emptied of function goers only to reveal the lonely individuals normally seen in the restaurant but this time sat on their own at tables in the sports bar.
It does get worse. The four screens in the sports bar all displayed the same round of some boring darts competition. Probably the world championships J. I seem to recall that at the age of eighteen I was interested in darts. I’m 46 now and no longer interested in darts.
Back in the room I’m writing my board report. Can’t send it though. The Wifi signal although present is too weak. I have to go back to the bar to get a strong enough signal. It will have to wait until morning. I could do it through my Nokia E71 (more on that later) but the GSM signal is also pretty crappy.
There you go. It was a technology post after all – sent from reception in the hotel.