How to pass two hours on the train to Dublin with no WiFi

THE Dublin-Cork train hadn’t left the station long when the Irish Rail announcer said that the WiFi was broken. He didn’t say the Wifi was broken. He said the WiFi was offline for the duration of the trip.

That sounded much better. A broken WiFi is a failure. A WiFi that is offline is a WiFi taking charge of its life.

A WiFi that has elected to plug itself out, because it had an incredibly important presentation to deliver to a Wifi conference attended by some of the world’s top modems, routers and fiddly-cable bits and it needed the headspace for a little while.