He’s been busy the past few weeks, but managed to send this little jewel along my way:
CNET News.blog - No Internet at United Nations ‘Internet’ summit
You’d think that of all places that should have speedy and reliable Internet access, a United Nations summit on the Internet would be high on the list.
Not quite. The organizers of the summit, held at a luxury resort hotel on the Athenian Riveria not far from the city center, couldn’t even provide a working Internet connection.
The wireless connection in the main conference hall appeared briefly before dying and leaving attendees bereft of the Net on Monday. Trying to connect to the base station yielded only a “could not connect to the network” error.
It was no better on Tuesday — by that time, the conference organizers apparently gave up and took the connection offline completely.
Peter included the comment, “You know, these really are the sorts of people we want to control the intarweb. The non-US intarweb, that is.”
Date: Nov 2nd, 2006 ·
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Tags: Electronics
November 21st, 2006 at 12:57 pm
Ima like! I want a pig coffee table. Then again I also wanted the blowed up Cosworth DFV block coffee table, expensive, must have been the demand, certainly wasn’t a supply side problem.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:42 pm
That Arnie poster is a hoot. Just the thing for the wall behind the office chair.
November 22nd, 2006 at 7:37 am
Yes, isn’t it? Or strategically placed in the boardroom, perhaps, where it can only be seen from a standing position at the head of the room, mid-stride through a certain point of a pace across the head of the room, when the head is tilted at the precise angle the head tilts when one is changing power point slides.
November 23rd, 2006 at 8:49 am
An Ewok? Chinese food on-line?