Mick D.'s Journal: Clio Back Online At a Coffeeshop

---Tuesday Oct. 21st 2003---

Pardon the unformatted entry please.

I am back online at a coffee shop! Yippee. Sadly and happily it is a Sturbucks. Sadly because the coffee is only good here if cold and mixed with soy milk and rasberry syrup. Happily, because Starbucks is nationwide and that bodes well for the other shops in the nation.

Now my previous entries were also from Starbucks but if you read through the previous enties you will see that they cut out rather abruptly. That was because I had a T-mobile account and was using it rather extensively. I paid through the nose with the rates they were charging but I could be connected to data and put it out there where I was comfortable.

The problem arose when T-mobile changed the way that they authenticated computers on their wireless access points. Something in the way they changed kept my Clio from logging on to their network. It was the case at several places so it seemed to be endemic. SO...long story short...Too Late...I could use it any longer.

Now today, in a different Starbucks in Cambridge Galleria, I tried it on whim and Voila. And without any authentication to boot. It would be wonderful to have this at other Starbucks but I doubt it is this way elsewhere. Here's hoping

Later

---Tuesday October 21st 2003---