Late Night PC

I finally caved in and signed up for a month-to-month account with T-Mobile for wifi. I end up at this Starbuck's weekly lately. Usually I've found that I'm quite productive offline. I can't check my email and I can't get distracted surfing. Unfortunately there's only so much website you can build offline. It's surprising just how much. I've set up PHP5 and Apache 2 on my notebook computer, so I can easily develop and test out a whole lot of things. Lately though I've been experimenting with RSS, REST and Ajax. While simulating both ends of the communication for all of that would make for a really cool application, I just wouldn't ever get done.

I think it just comes down to spending the time on it. And having access to all those standards at the W3.

So far I like the wifi (must be 10 whole minutes now). I figured it would be good to have set up already for the next trip to Cali (E3 next month). Since T-Mobile is supposed to work all the way across the US I should be all set.

While I'm at it, I ponied up five bucks to get ad-free slashdot - with plums! Just a mad spending spree tonight. Next thing you know I'll be paying for shareware.