The British are said to have an obsession with the weather. No-one seems particularly interested in the climate, but the daily weather is a dependable topic of conversation. Occasionally, it may slip over to more general issues ('we don't get hot summers like we used to', or 'there was virtually no snow this winter'), but it's always in the context of what's going on outside today.
With that in mind, I've become aware that we're in the middle of a drought. Never mind the depressing rain outside, there have been no new gadgets for a month or so. This is obviously a critical climate warning, and is something that we should sit up and take notice of. We don't need any scientific papers, think tank meetings, or UN conferences, but instead should insist on immediate decisive action.
Our team of experts have browsed the websites, read the blogs and researched the online catalogues of nearly every vendor on the Internet without reaching a conclusion. Oh, there have been odd suggestions - get a USB disk drive, buy a new video camera, even (shock horror) download a new piece of software. But there's a growing realisation that I don't really need anything new.
My colleague at work brought a new toy in today - a R/C helicopter simulator, complete with control and software to represent all sorts of different types of flying machines. And yes, it looks interesting - but I didn't get that 'must have' feeling.
We've had a series of new servers and similar technologies delivered at work for configuration recently, but these are just standard bits of kit now, no reason to get excited. Even a new group of network routers hasn't got me interested.
Perhaps there's no hope: the climate has tipped over into a gadget-free zone, and we're going to drift slowly into a new Ice Age, characterised by long inert periods spent on the sofa watching TV. Don't you think it's a bit cold for this time of year?
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