This morning we were supposed to turn off our computers, as the school link to Haddington was getting switched to a broader pipe - "you'll get to the bottleneck quicker" Alan C joked! I ignored this request, but unplugged by machine from the network. Call me arrogant if you will, but it made no sense to me that I had to have my desktop machine switched off even if it wasn't connected to the network in any way, so I kept it on. This meant that I found myself working on a computer without access to the Internet. I rarely travel with a laptop, so Internet-free computing is something I have not experienced for years. It was very strange! The inner dialogue was something like: dum dee dum - OK, I'll just - Oh, no, I can't check that. Right, I'll do this instead - this is going fine. Ah - I wonder if - oh no, I can't check that. Hmm - OK, here's something I can do without the Internet. The work I did on some Geogebra files was productive in the e