It's been a disastrous couple of days as far as Internet connectivity goes. My hotel has wireless, but it's like a slow dialup. I can load static pages, but I get timeouts on getting mail. Worse, anything with a script times times. Which means no blogging. Worse yet (at least for me), it means that I can't fight the human offal that have been spamming me. I've gotten hundreds of spam pings in the last couple days, and I haven't even been able to blacklist them, let alone delete the offending graffitti. The connectivity at the symposium was flaky as well.

Anyway, I'm at a Barnes and Noble now, paying for an AT&T connection by the hour.

It's worth it, but I see that I have to get a wireless card, so I'm not dependent on the whims of hotels with false advertising about their Internet capabilities.

I wrote the first bit of this post thinking of you. Good luck.

Any Paneras where you are? They have free wi-fi in most cases.