{"id":5761,"date":"2007-03-29T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2007-03-29T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T09:27:00","slug":"the-broadband-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-broadband-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"The broadband blues"},"content":{"rendered":"
My broadband has been down today, and my productivity, on a terribly slow dial-up, has been about a third of what it should be. I’m off to watch a film in a few minutes, so will come back and finish off the routine India Uncut tasks, like putting up the latest Rave Out<\/a>, Extrowords<\/a> and Workoutable<\/a> posts.<\/p>\n I think of myself as immensely lucky to have been born at the right time to benefit from the internet. Nothing I do today would have been possible before the internet, and you would never have heard of me, leave alone read my writing. And my shift to this new site, from Blogspot<\/a>, would have been futile if not for broadband: on a dial-up, all my daily tasks would have taken too long. Immense gratitude comes.<\/p>\n Of course, you might look at my condition now and say that I’m enslaved by technology, but this is a temporary lull in the middle of much empowerment. If Tata Indicom doesn’t give me back my broadband by evening, though, violence will ensue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My broadband has been down today, and my productivity, on a terribly slow dial-up, has been about a third of what it should be. I’m off to watch a film in a few minutes, so will come back and finish off the routine India Uncut tasks, like putting up the latest Rave Out<\/a>, Extrowords<\/a> and Workoutable<\/a> posts.<\/p>\n I think of myself as immensely lucky to have been born at the right time to benefit from the internet. Nothing I do today would have been possible before the internet, and you would never have heard of me, leave alone read my writing. And my shift to this new site, from Blogspot<\/a>, would have been futile if not for broadband: on a dial-up, all my daily tasks would have taken too long. Immense gratitude comes.<\/p>\n Of course, you might look at my condition now and say that I’m enslaved by technology, but this is a temporary lull in the middle of much empowerment. If Tata Indicom doesn’t give me back my broadband by evening, though, violence will ensue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n