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I’m a digital nomad right now. Monday night, the Internet disappeared. Just like that. No notice, or anything. One minute it was fine. The next, gone.

I fiddled with every connection, blew the dust out of my plugs, spent an hour playing with the configuration screens of the modem.

When it still wasn’t working on Tuesday, I called Tesco tech support, who admitted that they had deleted ‘a number’ of accounts to get around some technical problems they’d been having at the weekend. Nice. Thanks for the warning. Still, they fixed it, for a while, but yesterday it was gone again, and an email from the tech bods claimed that we had no account on their customer services database.

If I was dithering about switching services before, my mind’s certainly made up now.

But, I did get a very nice guy on the phone this morning. He asked who had sent the ‘can’t find you’ email and said that it was absolute rubbish. Claimed that the guy who wrote it (Andrew someone) can’t even have looked at the database because he found us right away, and that he’d submit our details again to try and get things moving along.

To be honest, though, I’ve not entirely missed it. I’ve had so much else to do that living without broadband for a couple of days hasn’t been a chore. Indeed, even living without my iBook since the weekend when the screen went blank and couldn’t be revived hasn’t been so bad.

Perhaps technology has become such a throw-away commodity now that you don’t crave it when it’s gone.

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