Flashback to 1994
I’ve read a few hypothetical articles over the past few years about what life would be like without the internet. Now I am living that life, at least during the work week. The current project that I am working on doesn’t allow us to have world wide web access at our computer stations. So, for the most part, we sit, and do work, listen to music on headphones, and talk among ourselves. Luckily, we have access to e-mail on our computers which allows us contact with the outside world, and one shared community computer that has full internet access. Sadly, the e-mail is filtered, so cute tricks like surfing the web via e-mail don’t work, and swear words cause the e-mails to get shunted to never never land. Theoretically, I could ‘hack’ the machine by installing Firefox by usb, but the risk of detection is not worth it. So, what can we do by e-mail? Send e-mails, of course. That includes sending “texts” by email to phones, which is handy in keeping in contact with people, since they can sms back. I need to figure out if its possible to send updates to facebook or twitter via e-mail, but my initial investigations don’t look promising. Thankfully, tumblr has e-mail posting capabilities, and with any luck, the e-mail will get through and allow me to blog from my desk, which would be a nice outlet from daily workday grind. I’m just an ‘alt-tab’ way from an Outlook window, which will allow me to blog about my day. I can record my thoughts and feelings about the news…but wait, I don’t have access to the web, so I guess I’ll have to reference events broadly. I guess I can also talk about the interesting things that people say at work or blog about my “revolutionary amazing insights” that I have while I am at my desk working. So, if you have any ideas about how to survive with limited internet access, let me know by posting a comment. It will be appreciated! P Please consider the environment before printing this email. ***Privilege and Confidentiality Notice*** This electronic message contains information that is (a) LEGALLY PRIVILEGED, PROPRIETARY IN NATURE, OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE, and (b) intended only for the use of the Addressee(s) named herein. If you are not the Addressee(s), or the person responsible for delivering this to the Addressee(s), you are hereby notified that reading, copying, or distributing this message is prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please contact us immediately at 212-907-0700 and take the steps necessary to delete the message completely from your computer system. Thank you.
