Should I be happy?
I was sitting in the coffee shop this aft; I should say “hiding” in the coffee shop because the wireless where I work wasn’t agreeing with Suse liveCD in my laptop (the wifi at the library is superbogus crappy: you have to scroll down below the fold of a page of straight text and the authenticate through a form that sometimes works), and then I had to try *two* coffeshops to get a properly working connection and I was totally grumbling and posted a snarky comment to my twitter when I suddenly thought of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETv3NURwLc . So now I’m thinking: is free/cheap public wifi that’s available pretty much anywhere something that, in Louis CK’s words: “the world’s owes us?”
I mean, here in the downtown, there’s almost free, good wifi pretty-much within reach of wherever we might be. That’s actually pretty good. So, even if it doesn’t work once in a while, maybe I should stop griping. I don’t know.
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By Norm, May 7, 2009 @ 9:32 pm
That’s a big city thing. Don’t you think that in a small town or out in the bush they’d be lucky to have any connection at all? You should be happy, then.
Best,
Norm.
By Phil, May 7, 2009 @ 9:37 pm
I don’t know, Norm. Even in small/medium towns I think there’s usually a good wifi cafe you can get to. Even in places like the Kootenays here in B.C. the very small towns can often have a cafe with broadband wifi. You might be surprised.