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MockoBlog MockoLog #5

I’m not a geek.

Not me! I like the outdoors, I go fishing, I play tennis after work, I go camping just with a small tent and I’d like to spend more time weeding my veggie garden.

I think society has become far too dependant on electronics. But not me!

My MP3 player is only 128 MB and I can’t remember where I put it anyway. I had my last cellphone for about four years. I use the same PC since the last millenium, with some improvements caused mainly by broken parts. My stereo at home can not even read re-writable CDs and I have never downloaded “cool free stuff off the Internet”, with the exception of a Trojan a few years ago. I don’t think electronics are worth investing in unless you use them to save time, make more money or if they are a real necessity, like a marine UHF radio when your small boat’s motor stops working 2 miles off shore (it happened to me – twice!).

I’m no fan of big companies that provide our communication services, either. This may be just because I couldn’t find a single one to offer all the services I need in a reasonable package. I get bills from: a satellite TV network, a mobile phone provider, a land line telephone corporate, another phone company who gives me broadband internet and toll calls, I host my website elsewhere and occasionally I may buy a cheap call card or I may pay voice over IP because most of my family are on another continent. (Actually, if you are in New Zealand, most other people tend to be on another continent and that continent tends to no be close enough.) Add these bills and you’ll figure out why I’m spending my time writing a blog nobody reads instead of holidaying in Isla Margarita.

To be continued – I got to go and read the 121 pages of instructions for the new smart phone I bought yesterday and subscribe to some online essential services to be able to use it as a GPS, an internet radio, a mini-laptop and even to write the MockoBlog on it. See you later!