Wireless Broadband

Well, I've finally broken down and ordered wireless broadband so I can have a decent internerd service at home and when I'm travelling. At ruinous expense of course but at least there's a 10 day cooling off period after the bits and pieces arrive.

The main driver for getting it at home is the fact that one of my housemates already has an ADSL connection that interferes with my dialup and vice versa. If I go wireless, he can leave his connected and I can connect whenever I want. 

Given that I travel fairly frequently, the other advantages of wireless in the laptop become obvious. :)

Now I just have to wait for bits to arrive. 

Oh, and for a nominal fee I can apparently convert my existing bigpond account to a mailbox account so I can keep the same email address running.

Oh the irony of it all...

Felt like putting some distance on the trike this afternoon, not much, just a ride around the eastern end of Lake Burley Griffin. When riding that stretch I pull away from the lake at Blundell's Cottage along what used to be a) my regular commute when working in Barton and b) the worst stretch of tarmac in Canberra.

It would appear that stretch got resurfaced whilst I was in NZ and the project was moving back to the West Block offices. 

So now its got a nice surface, and I won't be riding it on a regular basis. :)

Also my 1st issue of Velo Vision magazine arrived in the mail today with (among other things) a review of the Challenge XT concept trike. Drool....