Free Wi-Fi
I'm blogging from the Fort Wayne International Airport in Indiana. I was very surprised to find that the wireless internet was free here. I don't really fly that often, but all the airports I've been to halfway recently haven't had free internet. It's usually pretty cheap, like 6 or 7 dollars, but still something. I'm impressed with businesses that give out free internet access. I'm not a coffee drinker, but if I was, I would rather hang out at a Panera Bread than Starbucks, because Starbucks charges for their internet (unless you're a T-Mobile customer) and Panera is free. In my opinion, it just makes good business sense to have free internet. Especially now while not everyone has it.
On a related note, when are wireless routers going to come with a way to allow me to let anonymous users into my wireless pipe, but with say an extremely limited connection out and no access to my local network? I think if everyone started having the attitude of the internet being everywhere and open (at least a little), it would get easier and easier to get online. Kind of a you scratch my back, I scratch yours sort of thing. Anyway...time to fly back to Sea-Town...later...
Update: George put up a cool link to do the sort of thing I talked about in this entry. Check it out!