Edgefactor

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, this completely pointless post is being made from the middle of the Puget Sound aboard a Washington State Ferry equipped with free WiFi.

Unfortunately, the Mobilisa system seems to hate my one-year-old iBook’s wireless or something, because I get about half of the Mobilisa login page downloaded and then it just hangs. But Andrew’s two-month-old iBook works just fine. Go figure.

Anyway, the moral of the story is that this free WiFi business is a good idea, but I’m displeased at the fact that it doesn’t work on my computer. I’ve got important things to be doing on the internets during this 20-minute ride. You know…..online things, interactive things, let me just reiterate….important things.

Also, Fry’s is selling World of Warcraft today for $36.99. Lucky Andrew and I didn’t buy it for $50 when we were down there yesterday.

EDIT (like 10 seconds later): Apparently with some Tiger systems, you have to turn down your MTU size to 1200 on the wireless interface to make it work. Did that and now it works fine and dandy!

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