From: rusty.hinge@invalid.zetnet.co.uk   
      
   The message    
   from Frederick Burroughs  contains these words:   
   > Rusty_Hinge wrote:   
   > >   
   > > No tweets from me. No message/call (except the phobile shaking hands   
   > > with the telco from time to time) has left, or been received by my   
   > > cellphone for a week at least. And no, I don't have a landline.   
   > >   
   > > All I know about a Blackberry is   
   > >   
   > > a) Rubus (various specific extensions - and thorns...)   
   > >   
   > > b) Some sort of telephone technology I have no use for.   
   > >   
      
   > We have no cellphone coverage at all in the mountain valley where I   
   > live.  It's the 1st thing noticed by visitors to our home, as they voice   
   > a complaint, "The phone doesn't work."  We do have a fruitful blackberry   
   > patch we share with the black bears.   
      
   I like that, but bears are rather thin on the ground in UK...   
      
   (Threadbear?)   
      
   > No landline?  How do you browse the web?  Library or wifi at the pub?   
   > If you don't mind me asking.   
      
   I have a mobile internet dongle. Van use it on any of my machines, which   
   is handy when travelling with the flaptop.   
      
   > It would seem we're witnessing the fruiting of the telecommunication   
   > mycelial network.  All kinds of devices, apps and services are sprouting.   
      
   Yes, and I wish I were a few years younger, so as to get the full   
   benefit. I'm seventy next year, hooter-it!   
      
   --   
   Rusty   
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