thinking inside the box

Something called an active directory migration (AD is a tool for managing windows login accounts) has made it impossible for me to boot my computer unless I am connected to the corporate network. So much for telecomuting.

But XP is pretty stable, so I just need to not reboot while away from the office. The kicker was that somehow my laptop has decided recently that it can't recognize my home wireless network unless I reboot when I get home. So after I came back from the office Friday, I wasn't able to get back online until I went in again this morning. Ridiculous!

Until I realized that I still have a stack of ethernet cables that would be perfectly happy to connect me to my wireless router, and then to the Internet. So here I am, 1990's style, with a 25' cable running across the living room. And it took me less than a week to remember that I had this obsolete technology available as a failover.

I don't even want to think about what I would do in a blackout. mindlessly sit at the door, flipping the light switch on and off, over and over again?