War Blogging

I just got my Sprint data card, and I decided to see if it could maintain a TCP connection all the way home in the car. I figured the easiest test would be just to keep my IM client open. It keeps a heartbeat going and it will yell at me right away if the connection is lost.

Well I got all the way home, (via the gas station and grocery store), without a hiccup. As I drove I could hear buddies coming and going, and I even typed a little as I drove - only at red lights and when I was stopped in traffic, which was most of the time!

One interesting thing I noticed when I got home is that AIM informed me that I was now connected from more than one location, so I guess Sprint moved me to a different server at some point as I moved between towers - maybe when I crossed a county line? My battery gave up right at 90 minutes, but by then I was at the grocery store near my house, so I got a pretty good coverage check.

Now that I look at the IM log, I'm thinking this might be some new kind of (sadistic) art form. Would archeologists be interested to read the blow-by-blow account of one miserable commuter's drive home on the ancient highways Northern Virginia? And when you think about it, isn't this yet another form of blogging? And since I was hunting for wireless signal, isn't this basically a form "war-driving"?

So I guess I was "War Blogging" !

(16:59:12) screen-name-omitted: in the car now - I WON'T ANSWER any messages
(17:02:41) screen-name-omitted: red light :)
(17:04:58) screen-name-omitted: same red light :(
(17:05:06) screen-name-omitted: this cool
(17:07:13) screen-name-omitted: this is war blogging!
(17:25:22) screen-name-omitted: now for the hard part - I66
(17:26:59) screen-name-omitted: looks real baaaad
(17:41:31) screen-name-omitted: compton rd
(17:46:34) screen-name-omitted: cub run
(17:53:54) screen-name-omitted: rest area - ugh!
(18:00:30) screen-name-omitted: manassas - rockin'
(18:08:05) screen-name-omitted: bypass - is that dinner i smell??
(18:09:21) screen-name-omitted: 29 exit baby
(18:13:09) screen-name-omitted: gas station
(18:18:57) screen-name-omitted: going in to giant... hope the battery lasts...
(18:29:59) screen-name-omitted: that's it for the battery

There, now that's worse than Vogon poetry
.::.