In October I had a silver anniversary.

Internet and I have been connected more or less full time for 25 years.

That’s a long time.

It all started with sb13@ukc.ac.uk, has been through numerous email accounts (including several anons in Finland), a dozen computers/terminals and most OSes. I started my online career with mail, cat, jove, vi, irc, tetris, text-based rpgs and vms.

I’ve agonized over slow modems and trying to get the TCP/IP adjustments correct. Plug and play did not exist in those days. I can remember the very first days of Netscape and playing Doom on the office intranet.

In other words, I was at one time at the peak of technology.

My N95s, from left to right: 2008-14 and is used for charging as the screen is kinda wonky 2014-? is my current phone The last one is for when the current phone dies…

No longer. I am now very happy to have my faithful N95, and although it was first generation smart phones, it now has very limited options: I can make calls, send messages, take awesome pictures, and play on facebook.

That’s it. So what with neuropathy, flatigue, muscular pain, acute tendonitis in both arms, a resting bpm over 120 and loose nails on both fingers and toes, I have been more or less offline since the end of September.

Which is probably the longest time I’ve spent offline even through the early 90s (I was allowed to sneak in to UiOs servers and log on to my anon email accounts).

Apologies to all who have sent me emails or awaited updates here, there are a gazillion blogs coming but they are not pubishable from my N95.

And no, I can’t use a touchscreen thingamajig cos my tendonitis flares up.

Soooo…. I’m afraid you’ll have to stay patient a while longer. My finger nails are threatening to fall off. Sorry.