Liberation

I now have a broadband connection. This was obtained because other people were getting annoyed that I was on the phone so much, and because I discovered that thanks to Richard Branson I could get a connection that wasn't all that much more expensive than dialup and that I can cancel any time (ie no 12 month contract). In addition, it also has the added benefit of being a lot faster

Update: And as an added bonus, I can now access Alice Bachini's blog. I think that my previous ISP's DNS system had trouble with her slightly peculiar URL. Whatever the reason, I couldn't access the site, and I now can.