ok, my hotspot ranting will be done elsewhere, i seem to spend quite a bit of time looking for hotspots, but its the only way i can get unfettered internet access - proxy servers, content blockers and all that so read here if you care about wifi and the lack of

because guess what, its 7.50pm now and starbucks at 35 st and 8th ave will close at 10.00, actually they kick us out earlier, though i found a bar that is in my hotel that faces a starbucks and i can get a moderately good signal if i sit at the right place.
Thats the state of ubiquitous internet today, of course if you don't care you can get on those cullular networks for about 300 bucks for the card and some more for the service, and thats always under 100kbps....something is very wrong with that picture, remember the internet is over a decade old

and on the hotspot thing in nyc, there are a bunch on nycwireless.net's nodedb, you just have to find them, and there are might not be any conviniently located that open late.
The optimal place would be like paris on the platte in downtown denver, opens very late, totally free, lots of folks pecking away and dirt cheap coffee and food. I am so sorry for any time that i didn't appreciate paris. So a bit more hunting and i should find some interesting location that is not bryant park

ok, some more ranting and little coding, i managed to convince my boss to let me do a particular solution using C#, actually i doubt he cares whether its C#, VB.Net or Swing, He just needs a good app. The entire backend is a mishmash of java, lots of scripting and a bevy of legacy shit with lots of soap calls. The direction of the organization is a java based integration framework, so it should have been a java client app, but luckily with the fairly small user base behind the firewall a web app made no sense. Thus i sold him on a windows stuff client instead of the earlier envisioned JSP's. The purpose of this rant is that i will now be able to run VS.Net on my developer workstation, that means i can do all sorts of WinForms shit whenever i can, and i plan on selling them more WinForms stuff since they are already a Windows shop, the inhouse backend is all windows. Thus i should be able to sneak in some Write Free coding in the meantime. No promises but i will get to finish the Toolbars and maybe work on some more components, I read somewhere that someone had inky components, i went to their website and wasn't able to find any of those components. And like i keep on saying i need inky components, actually i don't but the tablet really needs inky compoenents, Windows has to get very inky fast.....and yes Dell is still wrong about the direction that the Tablet will take....so we are back is the point