Thursday, 2 November 2006
Keeping the lights on
Most people I think, when they go away on vacation somewhere, use one of those timers to automatically turn the lights on while they are away, so as not to broadcast one's absence too openly to potential burglers. It won't be long, I imagine, before someone's 'loose lips' on their blog, tracked down by tech-savvy wrongdoers, leads to them getting burgled after unthinkingly broadcasting their upcoming absence to the entire Internet.
We are just getting back from our trip to Italy today, and if all went as planned we had a great time and will be posting about it soon. Also if all went well, my blog continued posting stuff I'd written weeks earlier, making it appear as if we weren't away—and hopefully, we were not burgled, 'proving' that the system works :-) My own little version of a timer to turn the lights on and off.
So, I thought I'd come clean about this right away, just in case I have generated any resentment by 'refusing' to answer questions in the comments or by not cleaning up comment spam with my usual celerity. Non-robot posted posts will be returning soon!
