I’m back in the Home Town for the Xmas week.
One consequence of this is that I’m limited to dial-up speeds.
This is problematic, since it seems that the entire internet is now not meant to run on dial-up speeds. As one simple example, the ‘net interface to my Canadian bank seems to involve truly startling numbers of redirects, which — I’d imagine — are meant to be invisible.
Funny how visible they become when you’re cruising along at 26400 bauds.
Update (Dec. 25, 2003): I’ve been informed by the friendly folks at cmdo that my use of the word “baud” is in fact incorrect; the proper term is “bits per second” or “bps”. It should perhaps be noted that my first modem was an acoustic coupler that operated at 300 bauds (or bps, though “baud” was the term in use). So my mistake wasn’t luserism so much as honest ignorance.