WiFi World
March 5, 2008 – 8:29 amI’ve been taking my little XO (OLPC laptop) around with me a lot of places. It’s good at picking up wifi, and there are a lot of places that offer it for free, which makes it easy to check email and RSS feeds while I’m on the run, or waiting for friends to meet me for lunch. I haven’t even bothered initiating the T-Mobil account that came with my Give One, Get One purchase, though I’ve hung on to the info just in case.
I was happy to read that my city now offers free wifi in its Town Square, though less enchanted to find out, upon trying it, that it required setting up Yet Another Account. I suppose someone advised the city it would make it slightly easier to track down any miscreants, or maybe it was the easiest way to get people to read their Terms of Service. However, if running an open, password-free wifi network is good enough for security guru Bruce Schneier, one would think that might have been good enough for them. Ah well! Having set up the account, on warm sunny days, I might take advantage of their generousity and sit on a bench to surf outside. On the other hand, the library is right off the town square, and their open wifi just works.