I’m experimenting with ways of coping with dial-up internet. Google Reader has an offline mode via Google Gears, where I can download all the unread items in my rss feeds in one go, while I’m doing something else. Then I can go offline and read them more quickly. Just one problem, it only downloads the text, but no images. I’m also composing this blog post offline in a text editor, and then I can upload it.

There are some other interesting side-effects associated with having no access to broadband — I started watching TV and I even read the newspaper today.

Anyway, I’m investigating options for getting broadband via the 3G mobile networks here. Hopefully this blog will return to its regularly scheduled programming soon.