The grid has a grip on the rhythms of my family. This is not news, really, but it took a new setting, a vacation, to make apparent what should have been obvious.
This August my
wife and I went west for a vacation out west, in this case, to Lake Tahoe. It was a good vacation, but not an escape from the familiar. As with prior vacations, this one became a catalyst for reflecting on the role of information technology in our lives.
Perhaps resistance was futile, but mine was pathetic. I submitted my family to 
the grip of the grid almost from the outset, when I purposely rented a house with a broadband Internet connection. It even had a wireless modem.
This post will talk about how the grid took over our vacation. Ultimately, the grip of the grid never loosened completely. In retrospect, this was not all bad.
