Comments on: At Conference’s End http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/at-conferences-end/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:41:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jason http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/at-conferences-end/#comment-1407 Jason Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:07:20 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=644#comment-1407 <p>KF, I think they make patches for that sort of thing now.  Keep that jonesing under wraps. </p> <p> Too bad about the computer situation.  At least the company was good. </p> KF, I think they make patches for that sort of thing now.  Keep that jonesing under wraps.

Too bad about the computer situation.  At least the company was good.

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/at-conferences-end/#comment-1406 KF Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:05:45 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=644#comment-1406 <p>Hi there, Netwoman!  I’m sorry I missed meeting you there—we were probably in the same room quite a bit!  Next go-round, I hope… </p> Hi there, Netwoman!  I’m sorry I missed meeting you there—we were probably in the same room quite a bit!  Next go-round, I hope…

]]> By: Netwoman http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/at-conferences-end/#comment-1405 Netwoman Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:17:38 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=644#comment-1405 <p>I wasn’t fomerly introduced to you - and I missed some of the blogger gathering (because of the wonderful internet connection we had - oh wait we didn’t have any)....but it was good to be in the same room with you :) and I finally got to meet some of the Euro-bloggers - Jill, Lilia, and Torill F2F.... </p> I wasn’t fomerly introduced to you - and I missed some of the blogger gathering (because of the wonderful internet connection we had - oh wait we didn’t have any)….but it was good to be in the same room with you :) and I finally got to meet some of the Euro-bloggers - Jill, Lilia, and Torill F2F….

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/at-conferences-end/#comment-1404 KF Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:38:18 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=644#comment-1404 <p>Lots of euro-bloggers, indeed!  I even got invited to be an honorary Scandinavian blogger for an evening, which was fabulous.  But the technical absurdities, as Torill points out, were a bit much.  There was no wi-fi, but there was a lab, and there was access in the residences; but no one was able to get the access in the residences to work (and don’t get me started on the evils of their out-sourced phone service, with its required, proprietary, and crazily expensive calling cards).  So there was the lab; but the logins and passwords they’d put together for the lab didn’t work, so we all had to use the one login that did work.  Except that there was a ceiling on the number of users who could be logged in under that one login at any one time.  And many of the machines didn’t work.  Or the mice.  It was one of those if-it’s-not-one-thing, it’s-another situations that just became ridiculous after a point.  I’ve spent every available moment online since leaving Brighton, just to get my jonesing back under control… </p> Lots of euro-bloggers, indeed!  I even got invited to be an honorary Scandinavian blogger for an evening, which was fabulous.  But the technical absurdities, as Torill points out, were a bit much.  There was no wi-fi, but there was a lab, and there was access in the residences; but no one was able to get the access in the residences to work (and don’t get me started on the evils of their out-sourced phone service, with its required, proprietary, and crazily expensive calling cards).  So there was the lab; but the logins and passwords they’d put together for the lab didn’t work, so we all had to use the one login that did work.  Except that there was a ceiling on the number of users who could be logged in under that one login at any one time.  And many of the machines didn’t work.  Or the mice.  It was one of those if-it’s-not-one-thing, it’s-another situations that just became ridiculous after a point.  I’ve spent every available moment online since leaving Brighton, just to get my jonesing back under control…

]]> By: Jason http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/at-conferences-end/#comment-1403 Jason Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:40:29 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=644#comment-1403 <p>I have to say that reading posts on my paper last year was nice; echoing through the audience.  Bummer they didn’t have the infrastructure this year, though I wish I could’ve gone nonetheless.  Sounds like a lot of the euro-bloggers were there. </p> I have to say that reading posts on my paper last year was nice; echoing through the audience.  Bummer they didn’t have the infrastructure this year, though I wish I could’ve gone nonetheless.  Sounds like a lot of the euro-bloggers were there.

]]> By: torill http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/at-conferences-end/#comment-1402 torill Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:11:29 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=644#comment-1402 <p>Yes, when they asked us to keep people updated - that felt, well, absurd.  If there had been a accessible wireless connection they would have had loads of resourceful writers reporting on EVERYTHING, and constantly.  But the one time I did use a computer it almost worked though.  It was only the mouse that was broken, the password worked and the speed was good.  Now if I had just been able to point and click, I’d have been all happy! </p> Yes, when they asked us to keep people updated - that felt, well, absurd.  If there had been a accessible wireless connection they would have had loads of resourceful writers reporting on EVERYTHING, and constantly.  But the one time I did use a computer it almost worked though.  It was only the mouse that was broken, the password worked and the speed was good.  Now if I had just been able to point and click, I’d have been all happy!

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