While half my cyber friends are in Reno at the RWA conference, and the other half are having left-behind parties, I'm misssing out on both as I'm going to Canberra today for 6 days.
I'd post something wildly scintillating to keep you amused while I'm gone, but.... hmm.... can't think of anything.
...other than the challenges of writing suspense type plots when technology is making the difficult situations my characters might find themselves in obsolete. I was discussing surveillance technology with the DH on the drive to work this morning. Because if my secret agent characters can be fitted with a small microchip that enables them to be located by satellite anywhere in the world, then how can I lock them up in a hole in the ground and have nobody find them for 4 months, huh???? I was counting on the fact that any such device would be sending a radio transmission that anti-surveillance scanning devices could easily locate (good reason for my guys not to have them), but no, DH says, they have devices now that only transmit on receipt of a signal.
Hmmmm. Now I have to work out why my two top agents in the depths of dark places of the world wouldn't have these.
Oh, well, I have five hours in plane travel this afternoon to contemplate this.
I may not get to post while I'm away. Not that anyone will miss me much, I'm sure.
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Now Bron,
you know better then that,
you know we will miss you?
have a safe trip janice
Historical fictioneers don't know how lucky they are... I'd just invent a jamming device that blocks all such signals. Such things probably do exist.
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