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| A pleasant evening in Bandung |
Its been almost two decades since I’ve been to this part of Indonesia. Back them
I took slides and had to wait till I returned home before I could send then in
for development and another week or so till it got back. Now with a digital
camera the expectation is to have an image instantly and transmit it globally
instantly. Its not quiet like that what was once a beautiful mountainous area
with clean air free from the tropical closeness of the coast is now constantly
hazy and the traffic becoming very Jakarta like. Its still a very interesting
place
BUT internet connections are somewhat hard to fins and
the occasional Free WiFi is overcrowded and so slow. Seems eveyone has a smart
phone these days in Indonesia, and very few if any have apple logos) , You could
also pay exorbitant rate for international roaming but the speed won't be much
better.
The solution is simple go back to the old way be patient, dont try and post
(or at least wait till you get to the Singapore lounge and good free WiFi.')
This has prompted me to rethink about the fact that some many of the trends in
tools for digital photographers are on-line, or as the first step an upload. (Google’s
Autobackup and the Flickr’s Uploadr have been going frantic in the low band
width. Dropbox has released it should just wait.) I’m quiet happy doing it the old fashion way, but I do carry a laptop
that can be my place to upload and edit photos, Trying to access those
on-line tools and subsription system are just a real hindrance, I'd rather spend my time wandering around on a pleasant evening.
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