So I've been thinking of getting one of those cellular cards for your laptop that will allow you to access the Internet from everywhere, even when you're nowhere near a T-Mobile Hot Spot. I asked here about them.
I was still thinking about it when I came across an interesting news item. According to this piece in today's L.A. Times, "Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today pledged to blanket all of Los Angeles with free or very cheap wireless Internet service by 2009." Hmm…maybe I oughta wait and…
Hold on! What am I thinking? What that means is we might (might!) have something that will sorta, kinda work but not well by 2113. Forget I said anything.
And this won't matter to most of you but could they have made a bigger mess of Santa Monica Boulevard between around Wilshire and the 405? I go there now and I feel like I'm driving through a friggin' M.C. Escher print with little roads off to the side that lead to larger but still little roads that you have to get onto and get off of to go anywhere there, except that getting off them means merging back into the big road at points where no one will ever let you in…
Hope they're not putting the guy who designed that in charge of the city-wide Wi-Fi Service. If you think getting on a wireless network is difficult, go down to Santa Monica Blvd. and Ensley and try to get to Johnnie's Pizzeria. That's difficult.