I seem like a terrible blogger.

Recently seattle faced a little downtime due to snow and ice. If you live in seattle you understand that a little bit of ice can shut the city down for hours. It's the type of thing that makes you want to curl up by a fire place and watch re-runs of ally mcbeal. Don't ask.

So during this time, I attempted to function normally, I had a lot of things to accomplisha nd i certaintly wasn't going to let a little thing like a blanket of ice an inch thick all over town stop me from doing them.
This snowy situation however happened to one of the most wired towns i can think of. Most people I know in seattle have cable internet at this point and often cable everything else as well. One of the ways I had to use technology because of this heavy snow storm was i was unable to commute to work within reasonable amounts of time so I worked from home. This was the second time I had ever worked from home before but this time there was something fundamentally different.

The first time I was ill, this time i was not. I was trying to be productive as possible on my PC at home. The first thing I found myself doing was organizing the system to give me as little trouble adapting to a network of communication i usually participate on with a mac.

The key difference in the way I used technology during this time is during this time period the IT dept where i work set up an internet based chat group/im web browser application with cammpfire. this allowed our group of co workers who are already spread about the country to function more seamlessly with each other and accomplish emergency goals more quickly. So anyways, because of all this innovation there was no difference in how much I was able to accomplish at home than from what I was able to do at work. Actually I was able to do more because I did not have many hours of commuting and was able to work earlier and stay working later.

I suppose in pre-internet eras I would have played console video games or watched reruns of holiday season television snows to make me feel better about not being able to work, and of course there would have to be a fireplace instead of a campfire.