It’s morning in Dakar and I need to make a coffee. This laptop’s wifi is turned off, and I’m writing this first note as plain text before migrating it to my blog. Last night, our flat’s Orange modem ran out of credit, and the Internet was shut off. Kindly, our host had it back up quickly, but I stayed offline before going to bed. Now, freshly reminded that Internet access around the world is often not an all-you-can-eat proposition, I’ll continue some practices to conserve bandwidth for the two months I’ll be in Senegal .