Oh yeah, I'm back from vacation by the way. Spent a lovely if not overly
restful week on Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy -- beautiful place.
The not-overly-restful part ensues from the fact that we brought four of
our six children along -- they're all great kids, but I'd forgotten how
wearying it can be travelling with a gaggle of small excited people. A Web
site displaying captured video images of our holiday will follow, of course :)
Had a rather amusing experience down on the island. First, let me note
that Grand Manan is a remote and ageless sort of place, two hours by ship
from the mainland and not overly touristy. Just a quiet fishing community,
short on modern amenities but long on tranquility and splendid ocean
vistas.
Anyway, we rented a cabin on the ocean from a fellow whose main
occupation is lobstering. I spent my days beachcombing and exploring
with the kids, thinking very little indeed about Web design, computers and
all that.
On our last day I got to chatting with the fellow, who was curious about
what I did for a living "back on the mainland". I told him, and he was quite
interested: said in his heavy maritime accent, "Well well, now that's
somethin'. There's this outfit up Toronto way that wrote me awhile back,
says they's lookin' for someone to open an ISP franchise here on the
island, and I've been thinkin' on it..."
Anyway, next thing you know we're deep in conversation about servers,
modem pools, T-1 lines and 4x browsers; turns out that, thanks to a
federal government program for remote Canadian regions, the island is
already heavily involved on the Internet, and this fellow figures a good
local ISP could be a successful business venture. Just no getting away
from it, it seems. Not sure where I'll vacation next year to completely
escape work -- deep in the Amazon basin somewhere, I suppose :)
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Brent Eades, Almonte, Ontario
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Town of Almonte site: http://www.almonte.com/
Business site: http://www.federalweb.com
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