I remember coming across a wonderful tool that found WiFi hotspots around the world for us to latch onto. It was in the days when working remotely was not such a free flowing affair. It didn’t kill our enthusiasm of course, but things have improved and we find ourselves working more freely now.
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How to make money online
I just read this in 2023 and must say that the world has changed somewhat, so I’ll create a more updated version soon, but meanwhile back in 2007…
First, my fellow gypsies, we have to learn how to get some tools on the fly.
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Data Cards, WiFI and Roaming
In 2004 I set up my first on-line store whilst on the 17th floor of a hotel in Chiang Mai, overlooking the night market, and the hills in the distance where nestles the monastery of Doi Suthep.
My internet connection was made by stripping a dial up connection lead, popping on a connector and plugging into the telephone socket. I then used a local prepaid card that gave me lots of low bandwidth connection time, enough to get my site up on-line.
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Still Stranded
I can feel the winter rolling on to the London streets because it wakes up something that should be left sleeping. I feel too awake in fact, which doesn’t scare me half so much as it used to.
This is the time of year to be heading south with the beautiful birds, perhaps as a bit of a loping companion to them but all with the same goal in mind.
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Skype and mobile data cards
T Mobile seem to be green lighting the use of SKYPE on mobile data cards (since October actually, but I am just catching up), but I am still a little unclear about why they were against it in the first place, although the fact that people might be bypassing those expensive daytime mobile calls in favour of cheap Skype calls might be a clue. All we need now is for the quality of those Skype calls to improve and away we go, just pop a computer in your pocket and roam.
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The more mobile gypsy
The whole idea of super portability allowing us all to be cyber gypsies is maturing at a rapid rate. Completely by chance today I stumbled upon the OQO portable computer today and was amazed (I was originally chasing around rumours I had heard of Skype using bizarre amounts of bandwidth on mobile data cards, a rumour that I suspect is encouraged by mobile suppliers, but more of that later).
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What a great new plugin
I Just downloaded a plugin for firefox that allows me to post blogs directly from the browser window. Now, you may be thinking that that’s exactly what you do, but it’s handy to be able to login with one click and post when you are inspired, or drag stuff from the window you were browsing in to the blogging window.
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International
I have just installed a great plugin that translates this blog into a multitude of languages.
I don’t know what I’ll do if people start chatting away on the blog in Chinese, but all are welcome. It’s not too busy right now so I won’t be worrying yet ;0)
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Cyber Gypsies Abound
We seem to be festooned with cyber gypsies.
In a British Heart Foundation shop in Streatham, Indra Sinha’s ‘frank account of love, life and travels on the electronic frontier’ found us as we walked past the front window.
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