I will remember to take my laptop power cord with me. I will remember to take my laptop power cord with me. I will remember to take my laptop power cord with me.
Repeat 1000 times.
This would be less of a problem if I replaced the current batteries (about a 10 minute life). But even then a couple hours isn’t much when you are thinking 4-5 hours of online work.
Of course, a benefit of having no meaningful network access last night (our other machine is in use most of the evening by others) was that I got a whole bunch of other stuff done.

Due to family activities including lots of good music and work on a special project you can expect light activity here through Monday (Sunday may see a few posts). Nothing more today.

More summer vacation through 8/6. For sure no posting from now through Sunday evening and after that possible intermittent posting through Wednesday. Modulator will return to a ‘normal’ posting pattern on 8/7.

Along with the new month come some new folks on the blog roll to the left: Moorish Girl, Ampersand, Matthew Yglesias, Nathan Oman, Cowboy Kahlil, Orcinus, Daily Kos and Samizdata. A few, unnamed, have been removed.

New to the blog roll is Rob Schaap’s blogorrhoea. I usually do not add a site based on one visit but Rob sucked me into reading from beginning to end the longest single post* I have worked through to date: a ranging discussion of ‘capitalism’, government and globalisation. You will probably disagree with one point or another but there is certainly enough meat to get you thinking. I will be going back here often and suspect there might be a lot of treasure hiding in his archives. Thanks to Tim Dunlop for the pointer.

*Rob’s links are currently broken but this is his only post on April 16.