When the snow started to fall it felt a bit like Narnia walking through the streets
. But then the black-ice kicked in, the winds starting howling through the roads and the chill factor from the gusts felt like minus 20c. So Narnia turned into Leningrad.
Despite forecasts of 12inches of snow, I had a business meeting in London that I simply could not rain-check. It was 6.30am, miserable, and my ears were about to drop off. I managed to get the one train leaving Hove that morning with the only driver who was able to make it through the snow damn him. I sat there cursing the fact that a meeting had been planned and planned first thing. Then I noticed to my left a bloke sitting there with his laptop watching cricket online the England V South Africa test match. Fantastic I thought. I got over my apprehension to talk to a stranger and started commenting on the cricket.
He was using a tiny Dell Notebook (for about 25 per month), a Vodafone USB key giving him 7.2Mbps and connecting to Sky Players online live feed of the cricket free with the Sky subscription he had at home.
He could have been watching anything but to my undying gratitude he was watching the cricket.
Until pretty recently this simply couldnt have been done so easily the technology has been available for a year or so and Sky player has been available but none of the above were as simple and inexpensive to use as they are now.
As the train chugged along, the nearby passengers were all watching themselves and our cricket loving carriage was brought together by 3 pieces technology working seamlessly together.