Thursday, January 13, 2011

Noblesse oblige

So, I’m sitting in an overpriced Mountain View eatery with the oxymoronic name of Country Gourmet (and, I'm not making this up, outdoor loos), publishing this post courtesy of the company that put Mountain View on the cosmic map, Google.

Turns out that Google has showered this burg with free WiFi. It’s a little iffy from where I’m sitting—took me about 13 tries to get connected, and the network (and others) kept appearing and disappearing in my available wireless networks list. But all of a sudden, like the first Spring daffodil, it was here.

Speed isn’t great, and frankly this Google hegemony is a little creepy, but for free…

America, goniff!

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