Punching Buttons: Mobile Data and Mass Transit
Now it’s time for a good old-fashioned geekout.
On my Europe trip (from which I will post pictures one day, really), I decided to pick up a (relatively) cheap UK-based pre-paid cell phone, with which I could call both people I was planning on meeting on that side of the ocean, and back to the States. Also factored into my planning was the fact that part of my trip, which happened two weeks before we invaded Iraq, involved France. Fortunately, nothing untoward happened, and I enjoyed my visit quite a lot. As a bit of a control freak, though, I wanted to be in a position where I could make phone calls on the run if I had to, whether they involved finding my way out of a bad situation on the street or getting out of the country entirely (or, for that matter, staying out of France if hostilities had broken out before my Eurostar ride to Paris).
29 May 2003 / 0 Comments / Tags: tech