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Re: 10 day computer free vacation :)

Árni Gunnar Ragnarsson — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:46:54 GMT

jamie wrote:
so you saw.... fish?

Yup ... and lots of it, a barracuda too, some sting-rays and whole lots of sand ... it was really cool.

Re: 10 day computer free vacation :)

me — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:36:46 GMT

so you saw.... fish? ;)

Re: 10 day computer free vacation :)

Árni Gunnar Ragnarsson — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:30:34 GMT

Zeus wrote:

jamie wrote: take some 9 guy spain pics
Will do Jamie ...

Well ... I'm back, and had an enourmous amount of email to go through when I logged on for the first time.

I ofcourse forgot the C9 Guy, but found this in a harbor where we went on a submarine ride:

- Rest of family vacation pictures

Re: 10 day computer free vacation :)

GoddersUK — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:57:44 GMT

Lloyd_Humph wrote:

irascian wrote:The holiday would be fine. It would be returning home to find 10 days worth of email and RSS feed updates that would be the pain.

Yeah, that's what makes me shiver!

Nothing compared the backlogue of c9 threads. [6]

Re: 10 day computer free vacation :)

Massif — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:39:43 GMT

Lloyd_Humph wrote:

irascian wrote: The holiday would be fine. It would be returning home to find 10 days worth of email and RSS feed updates that would be the pain.

Yeah, that's what makes me shiver!

The thought of going to Australia for 3 weeks (next year, sure, but I must be prepared ) makes me want to take my PC with me... or get a sub-notebook (Probably a Tosh, any suggestions?)

Throw away all the news you haven't read. It's not important. If it was important, people will still be talking about it when you get back.

Which should only leave you with your e-mails. Most of those aren't important either.

Now, I'll grant you, I don't get many, so the 4 genuine emails I had waiting after two weeks away wasn't a problem. But if my wife could deal with a two week backlog (at around 50 or so a day depending on whether higher education funding is in the news), then anyone can. I had a look at her inbox while she was working from home a couple of days after we got back... 2000 unread e-mails! Yikes! That's probably more than I've received in my entire 4-year "career".

Re: 10 day computer free vacation :)

Lloyd Humphreys — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:33:35 GMT

irascian wrote:
The holiday would be fine. It would be returning home to find 10 days worth of email and RSS feed updates that would be the pain.

Yeah, that's what makes me shiver! :P

The thought of going to Australia for 3 weeks (next year, sure, but I must be prepared :P) makes me want to take my PC with me... or get a sub-notebook :) (Probably a Tosh, any suggestions?)

Re: 10 day computer free vacation :)

Árni Gunnar Ragnarsson — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:46:20 GMT

jamie wrote:
take some 9 guy spain pics

Will do Jamie ...

Re: 10 day computer free vacation :)

me — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:55:49 GMT

take some 9 guy spain pics :)

Re: 10 day computer free vacation :)

Isshou — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:36:17 GMT

Zeus wrote:

It will be strange not being in touch with the outside world, but good at the same time ...

How would U feel if you would be cut off (so to speak) for a period of time ... would you go insane ?

Just remember by day three when you start going through withdrawl symptoms that those voices in your head is not your computer sending email directly to your brain and you won't get a free plasma TV just by visiting some random site.

It seems pretty hard to be completely cut off... cell phones with web and email access, any internet connection and you can check your email. I think it wouldn't be being cut off that would get to me... it'd be that backlog of e-mail, rss, news, etc that I'd try to catch up on afterwards. Kinda like getting a pile of newspapers and a bundle of snail mail after a trip only in digital format.

Re: 10 day computer free vacation :)

irascian — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:27:11 GMT

The holiday would be fine. It would be returning home to find 10 days worth of email and RSS feed updates that would be the pain.

Re: 10 day computer free vacation :)

GoddersUK — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:41:18 GMT

Zeus wrote:
How would U feel if you would be cut off (so to speak) for a period of time ... would you go insane ?

All empty inside. This happens just after just a few hours of being both internet free and cut off from my friends in real life.