Jun 7, 2005

Sitting in the basement of the VCU Cabell Library, blogging via wireless internet. I wanted to make sure that the AirPort card was working properly before I made it over to France. I’ll be using this laptop to connect to the internet there, and I sure didn’t want to get there and find out there was a problem getting online. But all is well.

Sure is creepy to know that websites are flying through the air, perhaps through my body, to reach this little machine. Sure is strange to think that when I hit “publish”, my own words will swirl though the air, passing through skin and plastic and wire before reaching your screen. It’s one thing to say “all is one”, and quite another to literally sit in a vortex made of your own information.

Over and out.

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