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Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009 - 01:58 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

The Day The Internet Died

For me, that is.

It was a fateful 4th of January, when my modem simply refused to connect. Did it have anything to do with the ongoing upgrading projects? Beats me, but for a month or so now the modem had required about an hour for the initial connection, with the router log flooded with "Sending PADI..." messages. Not that the phone lines around here are the best either - a few years ago, frequent disconnects stopped only after the wires got replaced.

In the end, I just signed up with Starhub's cable broadband service. It was even free for a year as we were already Starhub TV subscribers, and would have been effectively about fifteen bucks a month over two years (with a cable modem thrown in) had I not required an extension to my room, rather than gamble with wireless. Never really trusted wireless, especially for gaming purposes. And on the subject of gaming, I recently discovered Garena for pickup DotA games.


Access Point at $107

Come to think of it, January 4 was probably the first time since... last year's Genting trip that I hadn't accessed the Internet for a whole day. And the first time that it had happened unplanned for years. Among other things, it nudged me towards trying out some of the games that I had installed but not touched for a long time, and I discovered that I didn't really have the heart for single-player games - a blind monkey would beat most of them given enough time, really.

Then I rediscovered Hamsterball, which I had spent some days mastering while still serving out my National Service back in 2004. That was the only game that held me for more than ten minutes. Try it.


Postcard! (Thanks lawrence)

Mucho little stuff going on. Drafted a short introduction to Drupal, cancelled my Pioneer subscription (three copies for a household is overkill), went for a JC class outing where half of the class were out working and earning real money (soon, Gilbert, soon), watched the stairways become an impromptu waterfall after some pipe upstairs burst (the floors appear to be sloped such that water tends to flow downstairs freely and not accumulate), retrieved Mr. Fish F. Chips after yet another daring escape attempt that saw him reach the balcony and scratch his head vigorously behind a dustpan, as if deciding whether to stake his claim on liberty with a hundred-foot drop...

Starting writing background and setting game mechanics in earnest for the long-delayed webgame, got a few new shirts, finished up the library books, watched the Champions of the World (Manchester United) struggle to get into gear, continued worrying about outstanding projects, ran a solid fifteen minutes in front of the TV on the elliptical trainer after finally getting motivated to drag it out (not a bad experience)...

Busy days ahead.



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