http://www.saynotophonebooks.org/2008/06/04/blogger-support-for-our-say-no-to-phonebooks-campaign/ Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:40:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.saynotophonebooks.org/2008/06/04/blogger-support-for-our-say-no-to-phonebooks-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Steve Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:40:24 +0000 http://nophonebooks.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-36 All very good I am sure and I may have thought so to until I tried for over twenty minutes to get into the 192.com website. Luckily I had kept the telephone directory and have made a mental note not to throw it away. Not just because of unreliable technology, or the many power cuts or even the fact that to compete with the book I leave my computer on 24 x 7 oops. I am not even worried about becoming one of those sad individuals who despite having to surmount various difficulties has decided he/she/it needs to, more than anything , be seen to be bonding to the internet. No I am simply loving the convenience of picking up a book, without being restrained to a computer or its desk and read it wherever I want to, with no regard for sunlight and to pick up the telephone in my own time and make that call, stress free. Of course if I had a beardy, woolly wearing, chain tying to tree agenda (and I have seen all types so don’t feel there is gender discrimination there) I might be prepared to state differently. Though notably the sanctimonious messaging to date seems still to be the popular placard on a stick, no doubt all materials sourced from sustainable resource…blah blah…. All very good I am sure and I may have thought so to until I tried for over twenty minutes to get into the 192.com website.
Luckily I had kept the telephone directory and have made a mental note not to throw it away. Not just because of unreliable technology, or the many power cuts or even the fact that to compete with the book I leave my computer on 24 x 7 oops. I am not even worried about becoming one of those sad individuals who despite having to surmount various difficulties has decided he/she/it needs to, more than anything , be seen to be bonding to the internet. No I am simply loving the convenience of picking up a book, without being restrained to a computer or its desk and read it wherever I want to, with no regard for sunlight and to pick up the telephone in my own time and make that call, stress free. Of course if I had a beardy, woolly wearing, chain tying to tree agenda (and I have seen all types so don’t feel there is gender discrimination there) I might be prepared to state differently. Though notably the sanctimonious messaging to date seems still to be the popular placard on a stick, no doubt all materials sourced from sustainable resource…blah blah….

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