Broadband. What is it? We take it for granted. We think we sort of know what it is. Do we? A ... broad ... band ... ? Broad as in wide? As in encompassing a wide range of frequencies. The frequencies of multiple messages that, because the band is indeed wide, can be transmitted simultaneously. Or not. When it fails, picture a band that's so broad it frays and curls in on itself at the edges; rolling itself up into a tight constipated tube that no information - even information backing up like logs behind a beaver dam - is ever going to burst through. Broadband at its most basic is simply electrons bumping into each other. It inhabits the earth and the air in a variety of forms, a broadband spectrum of electron collisions, if you like. In my imagined spectrum, there's SS broadband - the s low, s tuttering but mostly working variety. This is almost but not quite as b...
Stories and musings on life composed while walking the dog. Plus the odd rant.