4 days completely "offline"
The WE of the climb, with its bridge, allowed me to go and decompress a little land of foie gras, truffles and duck confit. Program, relaxation, sun, good food and scenery. Only drawback major of these 4 idyllic days, a total and forced offline mode: no internet connection and no phone either (no network access on a perimeter of 300m around my resort), just a phone that nobody know the number anyway, not even me. The opportunity therefore to test my addiction to computer online, and make a withdrawal from a few days. Assessment ...
DAY 1 - I'm fine, everything is fine Ok, one day is part of a frank laugh. No mail? pffff no big deal ... No IM or Twitter? and then ... No RSS? back to good old paper journals ...
It's been very good to enjoy the sun, lie in an hour "reasonable" to catch a little behind in my viewing of DVDs (including the documentary series Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, "The Staircase
"(" Suspicion "in VF), which I only saw the first episode before you purchase the complete series and well worth a visit). In short, I feel good without my PC without my cellphone.
DAY 2 - Early itching some discomfort is felt ... I turn all the same laptop that I could not help but to bring in the secret hope of capturing a signal WiFi unprotected from a neighbor, or even a
fonero . Not a chance, I forgot that I am in a village with an average age of my senior neighbors approach the century ... No, without wishing to youth culture, I doubt that the major ISPs are very interested in this potential market "of the world." The
FTTH is not won here. Mocking the message "No wireless networks were detected in range" makes me angry. I also want to run a defragmentation of my hard drive (something I never do ... I'm a fan of the re-install "from scratch" to clean a disc). I go to the air much of the day and then finish my evening until late at night by some "solo" (arfff) Virtua Tennis 3 on Xbox 360.
DAY 3 - Numbers full head Today I believe in numbers ... How many emails piling up in my gmail box? How many items unread in my Google Reader? How many hours before they can see my twitter, my Skype, my MSN and what are my friends? To pass the time between ballads and restaurants, comes the idea of this article for my blog. It allows me not to think of other figures: the number of items that I could write if I had been logged in recent days, the number of visitors daily on this blog, the number of subscribers to the RSS feed ...
DAY 4 - If you came home? This time it was decided, it is not beautiful now, it's a return to earlier. Even if half of France had the same idea as me and I hit the half of the road in traffic. Okay, as long as my internet connection works when I arrive ... Appraisal: sixty emails "not spam" on hold over a thousand unread items in Google Reader and a few people who were concerned about my fate, quickly reassured via IM. In short, my next vacation spot? anywhere in the world, provided that the term "broadband" means something to the natives.