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Saturday is No Tech Day
MARCH 27TH has been designated 'No Tech Day' by the charity Practical Advice.
"Could you go without your phone, laptop or games console for a day? What about all three? How would you cope?" asks the firm on its website as it urges gadget addicts to join its cause.
Practical Advice wants people to spare a thought for those less fortunate and go without the use of their gadgets, laptops, and mobile phones for just one day. Those that opt to go cold turkey can get sponsored for their efforts, it explained.
Confusingly though, it wants those who take part to report on the experience, and suggests that they do so using blogs, videos or photo diaries.
Only the last suggestion, a comic strip, requires no technology, but to be fair, maybe Practical Advice expects people to summarise their experiences on Sunday. We expect that by Sunday they will be slavishly updating their Facebook profiles and phoning their mum back to explain that they are not 'dead in a ditch', but it is not for us to say.
If you want to know more you can visit the No Tech Day website. Except perhaps you can't - it might after all switch its web servers off tomorrow.
Banned technology is actually far more home user focused, and includes things like DVD players, satnavs, radio, games consoles, and um, calculators.
So put off that singalong road trip with your maths buddies until Sunday. µ
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It's Saturday, and their site is still up.
I also like their no-tech day tagline: "Did we mention that you could win an ipad?"
So that's what the ipad is for huh, celebrating no-tech says.
Get Digital Camera, Establish Mobi Stream, look for BEST Deals, WebCam Attic for Deserters, Turn Rhodes Replay on, Check ALL Amps, Refuel Vechile, Use Megaphone to Call Kids In, Video Cam 'Em Running to UnKnown World of Dreams.
Nothing to Do :Saturday. Change tune on Electronic dooorbell, Pre heat Frezer Ham in Microwave, Wear 3 watches. Get bunch O' LED Lamps.
Standarize VOM & Dual trace. Recharge Piles. CALL WorldWide See if Line Works. Take Temp on 'tronic therometer. Make that Person My Mate, ummm. so much Wasted time. OK Ready. Oh MY God, Recharge more piles AA AAA or D. Is Security System Running. Check Blu Rai LCD, Does Chathode Ray Still Shine, Is Diagnostic Stuff Still Straight. Walkee' talkee' , Test Short Band, Again. OMG, Reinsert USB Santa Lamp.
Take Moment to Relax. NEXT. Need 4 Tripods & Digital Cameras For Lunch. Test Microphone. Light Controller Board. Please, Oh god, Shut Window....
How Are Card Balances Looking. When its' Sunday & All Seems Fine.
I have to setup a brand spanking new SQL Server at our data center, and then I'm helping my CEO's kid build a gaming rig, and then I'm going to go home and drink a few beers and play some Bad Company 2 on my rig. Sucks to be me ;-)
Owners of Apple products won't be affected.
Sorry but I don't think I can re-schedule the weekly WoW guild raid with such short notice.
And I would not want to bother my fellow guildees.
Just not by choice.
not going to happen, i have a motherboard swap to do
can they give us more notice next time?