ok , now am 25 floors above seventh avenue and for some reason am picking up 5 AP's , and yes some are accesible, so i have 6 mbps connectivity via an unknown insecure entwork, i am not complaining but i will try to find the owner of the ip so that i can inform them that their network is open to whoever, if its internal , too bad. So i have net access, now i can work in my room

ok this blog is about Write Free, the open source note taking framework, so its probably not a good idea to rant about hostpots here , but the fact this project is not being done in one location and like every one i also have to have a real job at some point in the year so i have to travel, i really expect that i might miss my books and other artifacts that i may have at my desk, but i expect to be able to connect to resources and stuff like that ...oh well may be i am clueless

someone tell me am clueless about the broadband and hotspot thing since if am right then we have a big big problem, doesn't those two items determine the economic direction of the human race, i mean doesn't it seem like a critical aspect of what we will ultimately become, a species that communicates in real time and with unlimited bandwidth. Thats what i think, but then why are so few public places not going out of the way to set up few hotspots, i would figure any public place would find it an obvious smart move to set up a free hotspot. Not only do you attract a more aware if only afluent clientele with that capability and am sure it costs less for the average business to set up a hotspot than it takes to set up the music system that blasts hip hop into the unfortunate cistomers ears.
ummm now am sitting at the corner of 35th street and seventh avenue - at the starbucks which opens later than the one block up, i still haven't found a place in manahattan like paris on the platte in denver, and even paris closes at 2:00 am, something is very wrong with this lack of "internet in the air " picture. I am sure its related to the whole messed up telecoms industry situation. i feel like am part of an untapped , misunderstood opportunity. I miss houston and Barrett Canon who i personally think is a revolutionary on the scale of Ben Franklin. Based on my few experiences i think houston wireless is undoubtedly the most progressive and effective community wifi network promoters ever. They have focus and for that reason , most of houston is fairly covered with over 100 free nodes.
I am still trying to explore/assess NYC wireless and their famed 587 Locations, and 8990 Total Nodes. currently i have not found any one of those nodes and am in the middle of manhattan so am wondering whether nodedb is not the best way to make folks aware of hotspot locations or whether the specific communities should come up with a more get folks to use the AP's strategy. I guess most folks have understood Metcalfe but haven't yet figured out Reed's Law. The story now is not about doing networks, that's a given and thats really a lower level communal function. The tricks is building a more value based thing and communities do that. Its easy to link folks together, in fact me and all the folks having this 3 dollar mochas are a kind of network, but am not sure you can call us a community, there is little group forming here, though i confess i am sometimes by nature anti social , but i really would rather do digital communities than real life communities

and also according to Paul Thurrott

Tablet PCs Set to Soar
"Tablet PC sales only account for about 1 percent of the overall market for notebook computers, making them a niche market at best, but various trends and changes to the underlying platform will see sales surge, analysts say. The original generation of Tablet PC devices was hobbled by two huge problems: Poor performance and poor battery life, the latter of which is obviously a deadly sin for machines that are meant to be used untethered. Both of these problems will be solved by the Centrino platform, which combines Intel's Pentium-M processor with dedicated chipsets and wireless functionality, leading to excellent performance and stellar battery life. Another change involves the common-sense move away from slate designs--which target certain niche markets, but aren't viable for normal office use--toward the so-called convertible laptop, which can work like a normal notebook when needed, or be switched into slate mode for handwriting-based work. Market research firm IDC predicts that Tablet PCs will thus account for 20 percent of the notebook market by 2007"

am not sure whether the centrino will be the savior of this mode of computing, but i agree that battery times are ridiculous and though there are a bunch of promising ideas and trends in computing power management that are coming of age, i still think for some time the demands of the average mobile computa (computa is my term for a human using a computer) will exceed the ability to provide the kind of power experience that hand watches provide (when was the last time that you thought about you watch battery). The one single factor that will make all the difference will probably be the proliferation of "internet in the air", another of my terms that means hotspots. The fact that a place like New York has a minimal number of hotspots available the entire day, actually am not even sure that you can find a 24 hour hotspot location at all , i haven't found one. I continoulsy bashed Denver,saying how the telecoms infrastructure there was horrible, and now in New York city i see the same thinking....that might be the real reason untehered computing is failing and that might be the reason that the Tablet is languishing

nevertheless we exepect to write lots of this stuff since:
1. I hate the tethering that is part of desktop computing( am willing to forego the big display and the mess that is my desk for an ad hoc computing location- and while for some tasks my desk is the more optimized location, often i need to redce the baggage that comes with that location)
2. This is not just about location, its also about a new way of working and though i am typing this words i believe being able to use the almighty pen anywhere and got a bunch of things creates a bunch of opportunities for me that i would otherwise not have had
3 i vowed not to get keyboard related health problems
4. the smallest keyboards are at least 2 inches by 4 inches or something like that , you can write in the air and have that sent back to your virtual built into your glasses display or whatever
5. and its gores on and on

another rainy day in New York - means little development done since i mostly do hotspots and other off base development locations, its really very hard to do any development without some type of internet access. As a result, most of the development will be done tonight, i guess , without internet access