I realised why I wrote so many blog posts when we were in Japan — I couldn’t watch TV. We did have a TV at home, but we didn’t subscribe to cable, so we could only get the free-to-air Japanese broadcasts, which I couldn’t really understand. So I spent most of my evenings reading blogs and other stuff online, which gave me lots of food for thought and generated lots of blog posts.

Now I’m plunged into dial-up darkness, and the TV in the corner beckons with its promise of instant relief of boredom. However, watching TV doesn’t really generate good fodder for blog posts. For one thing, the amount of information conveyed per unit of time (even on Discovery channel) is low relative to blog reading (Felix was right). Also, you can’t pause and think occasionally like you can when reading blogs. Typical TV programmes require you to give a lot of attention, where you’re seemingly fully occupied but underemployed at the same time.

Anyway, I will get a 3G phone next week, and hopefully will rejoin the broadband world.