I have finally – FINALLY – managed to get an Internet connection using my laptop in Mexico.
It’s at Mexico City International Airport – and even now I am having to ride on the back of a signal from one of the business suites because the public hotspot runs on Prodigy, you can only access it if you are a Prodigy customer or have an Internet connection card, and the woman at the only place that sells the cards in the airport very unpleasantly told me “No tengo” and then refused to even look at me from that point.
Christ. I have grown so used to getting email (can’t access it on my phone either as there are no GPRS masts about). And now I finally have, I have hit the strange phenonmenon of having so many emails that you have to approach it in a structured way because you lose the connection before you get them all.
In four days, 459 emails. And of them a pathetic 31 were useful to me, another 60 or so were from mailing lists etc etc that I have a passing interest in.
So, despite a very extensive anti-spam system that I have which I won’t bore you with now, I am still getting 3 out of 4 spam. 2007 has to be the year to finish this off. And perhaps we can start on getting Net access more widely accessible.
I have had time to write about four emails once I’d dealt with all the spam, which has taken an hour, and now I have 10 mins to catch my flight. I’m sure I was supposed to be chilling out in Mexico. As it is, my body has just settled from my drive through Mexico City – not something for the faint-hearted. Bring plenty of adrenaline. Right, onward…
Rachel
January 5, 2007 at 11:50 amI heard a feller on the radio talking about how 2007 is indeed going to be remembered by future generations as The Year That Spam Was Smashed.
But then another fellow came on, laughed and said “Wishful thinking, you muppet!” – so maybe it won’t be.