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Back in England

And I’m back.

This is just a quicky because I’m paying five pounds an hour for ’net access in Starbucks. England isn’t as wireless as I had hoped. I’m going to be mostly offline for the next few days getting my affairs in order and readapting to life this side of the pond.

I’ve had a fantastic year and I’ll be sure to write something up about it once I have access to a cheaper Internet connection.

Posted 30th September 2004 at 10:54 am

This is Back in England by Simon Willison, posted on 30th September 2004.

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  1. Welcome back to Britain, it's been nice and quiet here without you ;)

    Andrew Donaldson - 30th September 2004 11:13 - #

  2. Welcome back to Blighty old chap!

    Jonathan M. Hollin - 30th September 2004 11:58 - #

  3. Welcome back. Warm beer and Marmite all round.

    Simon Brunning - 30th September 2004 12:09 - #

  4. Welcome back - "Persistent sometimes-heavy rain in much of the west and north, cloudy with increasingly heavy showers in the south, some perhaps thundery". Ahh lovely.

    Tom Gilder - 30th September 2004 12:13 - #

  5. I'm basically a homeless wanderer in the UK recently, mostly around the south and I have very little problem from open free wifi nodes, maybe it's different in the north, but it's more typical to find choice there's a nice cafe in Surbiton which has paid for wifi at 5 an hour, and 2 other free open nodes from nearby which work there - no I have no idea who uses the commercial one either.

    Jim Ley - 30th September 2004 12:19 - #

  6. Five pounds/hour? Didn't Tony Blair just pledge high speed access for all? Guess he forgot about pledging for wireless. Welcome back. AJ

    Spyware Remover - 30th September 2004 13:25 - #

  7. Also flabbergasted at £5/hr! Extortionate!

    Shouldn't wifi access be *cheaper* than an Internet Cafe? No fixed cost outlay on machines, no maintenance, etc.

    And welcome back to Blighty! :)

    Marcus Tucker - 30th September 2004 13:55 - #

  8. Welcome back. Can't wait to read your forthcoming blog entries. £5/hr is approximatively the price I paid in 1997 in an Internet Café for a 128Kbits/s line shared between ~16 computers. And I found the connection fast at the time ^__^

    Mathieu 'P01' HENRI - 30th September 2004 14:48 - #

  9. You should come down to Brighton. It's WiFi city here.

    Andy Budd - 30th September 2004 16:15 - #

  10. Nice to have you back!

    Where abouts in England have you set up camp?

    Noah - 30th September 2004 17:35 - #

  11. Hi Simon, I heard somewhere that Foyles Bookshop on Charing Cross Road does free WiFi... But not until I had paid £1 for 50 minutes in Virgin Megastore... ;) You coming to North Wales matey?

    Malarkey - 30th September 2004 20:08 - #

  12. Welcome back Simon. JW an old GamePlay chap boy here, doing lots of CSS. Been reading your blog for a while. Your just back in time for the crapee weather ;)

    JW - 30th September 2004 21:49 - #

  13. Not quite related, but I figured this is as good a place as any -- could you change the 'Firebird' link under 'Of Interest' to 'Firefox' and update the URI? Thanks. :-)

    One more thing -- your comment system doesn't seem to support entities apart from the basic XML ones; no   and –? :-(

    Aankhen - 5th October 2004 17:04 - #

  14. North America's loss; the United Kingdom's gain.

    Vin Crosbie - 6th October 2004 02:37 - #

  15. Hi Simon,

    There's free wifi at the Big Chill Bar off Brick Lane in London, apparently.

    Are you heading back to Bath for your final year?

    Tim - 7th October 2004 12:51 - #

  16. England does have loads of wi-fi - check out this lot in Bath - it's just somewhat expensive (apart from in Brighton of course!). Maybe see you at the London bloggers meet in early November?

    Richard Rutter - 7th October 2004 16:33 - #

  17. fadfdsffdadsf sdfdsaf

    Andrew Donaldson - 21st October 2004 05:10 - #

  18. Welcome back. Cheers, Lenny

    Lenny Cooper - 23rd October 2004 17:19 - #

  19. damn its almsot been a month sicne ur last post.

    david - 24th October 2004 12:10 - #

  20. Simon, hope you're enjoying yourself back in England. Have you decided to take up a new hobby?

    bert - 28th October 2004 10:27 - #

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