On the note of getting things to the better side of the future; we have taken down a lot of WiFi equipment and it will now be shipped south.
With it I am enclosing a number of solar power cells and it is to be used by a number of schools in Senegal.
This gives them a useful connection for internet better than the slow things they use today and lets the older students develop their IT skills as well as take part of the world community such as Youtube etc.
When we was to get antennas we realised that the ones they built themselves out of Coke and Pringle cans were a lot better than those we could by for them and their price 1% of what I could ever have found.
Rewiring this world with renewable energy, reused equipment and bright minded users, that is fun in the best of ways.
I do not remember it from my childhood but it is still very live and well in many countries.
It creates a bond in the neighbour hood, you meet at the bread car or down at the corner in the early morning, have a coffee together in the cafe door to door to the shop and then back home.
I miss it in bigger cities even though Bucharest still have them there, they are a diminishing number.
I just think reading an outburst like this now and then is refreshing and will help giving new users hope that here is not only an endless battlefield.
Somewhere here, dating and friendship take shape and grow too.
We have enough back home to spend our energy on for rescue. I do not know about the Canadians though, as we are sending a tow boat there to pull it over to here.
mike69spain Forum Posts (4,110)
Drrrrrrrrum Rrrrrrrrrrroll 
RE: castaway
It would make great soap television