Friday, April 06, 2007

And Not a Drop for Drink

I'm posting this from the lobby lounge at the Seattle Hilton. I'm writing from the lounge because the in-room high-speed Internet does not look. Yes, I can get in-room Internet in any hotel room in any off-highway inn; but here I am in one of the most wired (in every sense of the word) cities in the world, in the very shadow of Microsoft, and I can't access the Web in my room. Wi-fi, wi-fi, everywhere . . . .

(Of course, the in-room Internet costs $10 a day, and the lobby wi-fi's complimentary, so I shouldn't kvetch. But I will.)

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Update:

The Hilton's tech-guy couldn't solve the wired Internet problem -- so he set up a wireless connection in the room, and didn't charge for the Internet. Very classy.

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