Incommunicado

Just spending some quality time here in Oz with the wife's folks, reading and spinning yarns as they say. Not really out of choice if you have to know the truth. You see until this morning they only had a dial-up connection. (For you kids, imagine a series of squirrels with small packages running from point to point and you're close to the idea. Though, if you don't know what a squirrel is, you may be a little confused).
I have signed them up for ADSL with Telstra, the national carrier and it is a little better, though the promised 1500 kps is patchy and every now and again it won't connect to anything at all, even the Telstra site.
Here in Australia they have download limits. One package (39.99 a month) offers the following treat: up to 256 kbps and a limit of 200MB of download. So that's one way to battle Internet piracy. I suppose it is rewarding for me as a blogger to know that most Australians are willing to pay so much to read these words. Certainly wouldn't cut it in Korea.
Incidentally, Telstra shares are worth about half what they were when last floated a couple years back.

Web Fun

If ever you are bored, type a file name and extension commonly used by digital cameras into the Google Image search engine. eg dscf0001.jpg See if you can find a friend.

Rock Me Amadeus

8.20 LAX nachos with beef. A family of five all wearing baseball hats with maple leaves on them leap in unison to exclaim that they are going to Australia. I choke a black bean into my nasal cavity. 'Rock Me Amadeus' makes me think of simpler days. I have tried to get a decent seat on this flight, but it seems everything is booked out. The great unwashed have finally discovered the internet i guess. I have misplaced half a chocolate bar in my 'laptop'bag, I can't see that ending well. As I write this I am also trying to connect to the free wireless here at LAX without any luck. I suck at this computer stuff... ps Everybody Wang Chung tonight.