HW: what's happening....

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 08 Jul 2009, at 17:32, stevepxr5 at AOL.COM wrote:
> Where do you live Carl, and why is it so nearly impossible for you  
> to get CD's in the post?? I'm sure I could send it to you, and if I  
> could........


I live in Colombia, South America. :)  That's not nearly so dramatic  
sounding as TV and Hollywood would paint it (though it was probably  
even more dramatic than that about 15 years ago), but there is no  
national postal system, digital media get slapped with very high  
import taxes (not books, though), and my house actually has no  
official postal address.  That said, books and letters sent to my mum- 
in-law's flat (which does have an address :)) from abroad have a very  
good record of actually arriving, but CDs and DVDs are scarcely worth  
the risk vs. the expense.  (Digital media are more likely to go AWOL  
than English-language printed matter! ;)

On the other hand, I have perfectly fine high-speed Internet that may  
actually be more reliable than the service I had in the UK.  (As  
usual in the developing world, when the new tech starts to arrive, it  
arrives as _new_ tech, with no legacy systems to work around or on  
top of, and so it actually tends to work surprisingly well.)   
Therefore, I look forward more than ever to the day when buying  
lossless downloads are the norm. :)

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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