Over the past month, my friends know whether I'm at home or at the plantation according to my online status... but no more! For now I have a GPRS connection here at the plantation. It's so nice.
It was on my way here last Wednesday that I got the SMS message from Iraqna (but which is now called Zain) saying that the GPRS service is now available and to call to activate it. I called and requested they activate it the next day and they told me to wait 48 hours... well it's been five days that I've been waiting but it finally works after I figured out that I have to include the modem initialization command into my laptop because I kept getting Error 734 PPP link something.
Everything's going fairly smooth over here at the farm. Still not on top of things and I've got a few problems here and there. I've got a cousin that owes me a hundred bucks and that I feel might be avoiding me because of it. There's a lady at the land registry office that won't process my request for land certificates unless I bribe her. I'm going to call dad to see what to do about her.
After the kidnapping and murder of that distant cousin of mine, the city has a lot more cops. Apparently the family sheikh told off the security forces. Today the city was rather empty and all the shops were shut. Everyone's gone off to some pilgramige to Baghdad. Meanwhile, I'm here waiting for some of them to come back so I can pay them money I owe them for tilling the land.
Crap, I've spent maybe an hour online and I just got an SMS saying that I've got less than three bucks of credit on my mobile left. That's about eight buck for an hour. That does sting. I need to figure out how to minimize my laptop's connection activity. I'm paying a cent for every ten kilobytes here.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
I'm Online At The Plantation
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Video tape the bribe, then put up on the internet.
A tip for you Shaggy. Write your blog posts in a notebook and don't go on line until you're ready to post it. That should help a little.
when on GPRS , I use linux.
with Linux , I use Pidgin messenger (yahoo,msn....) http://www.pidgin.im
and Opera for browsing.....why Opera ? because it can disable images loading to minimize the bandwidth usage.
Usually I can stay for hours on Yahoo messenger without spending more than $1
But remember . it got to be Linux , otherwise Windows will suck you credit.
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