interlude

Is there anything more civilised than sitting in a Dublin Hotel bar with a pint of Guinness and free Wifi ?

 

Well, yes, there probably is, but right now it is good enough for me. Increasingly, when travelling with work, I find it exhausting having to go out for dinner in the evening with my work hosts - whilst the food is always good (often excellent), I can do without the continued shop talk well into the evening. So after a day being bombarded with the technical nuances of meta-data and associated philosophical endpoints, I really appreciate a bit of downtime surfing BGG and twittering with meta-acquaintances.

I'm resting my metadatametatarsels and blogging into the ether instead.

 

I'm a little bit concerned about the security of the connection, though, given that it is open access wifi, but I can't imagine that there are many people trying to eavesdrop in on my garbled one way conversations with the blogger application. I blame Cryptonomicon. It's a great book- which I've finally managed to break the back of during the flight and early evenings  - but it does lead to a certain degree of digital paranoia. Now that MI5 is tracing my Facebook account I ought to be careful.

 

Of course there's always the possibility of someone trying to post on my behalf. Undermine the exalted wisdom of the ex-kitchen boy.

I need another pint.