Winter Blogging in the Garden

Bill writes: Our internet connection speed has dropped from 2MB/sec T1 lines at work, to 500KB/sec DSL in Sunnyvale, to 50KB/sec in our flat, and now with poor reception (perhaps due to the poor conductivity of the dry winter air) to 0.1KB/sec. This means it can take half an hour to load a page and literally days to upload a single blog posting. So I went down to our communal garden, walking along the back of the buildings with my laptop open, hoping to catch some stray wireless internet access from a neighboring flat.

Success!

It's a sunny 37 degrees fahrenheit here and I'm thinking of Jack London and "To Build a Fire" and hoping this blog goes up before frostbite sets in. Well, before my fingertips blacken, here goes...