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Several years ago | decided Id try to join the busness ‘raveing elt, packing a weeks worth of cothes, gadgets and sundry Suppes into case that would easy fit nthe overhead compartment. succeeded but not without meking some sacrices nado to wearing the same underwear fora fll week ke; three days tons) | sacrificed my trusty Acer Travelnate 3401 laptop and ofFboard CDROM / floppy isk eader. stead, | feured could doa that needed to be one with my weeless1eady PDA already had all my ‘calendar appointments forthe week. My eral was st uo and ready to go. thea al the contact deta for peopl | was ‘supposed to meet during the show. ‘The WEI conection, in ation to Bluetooth, was someting ofa rariy ina PDA back then. With a snapon QWERTY thurbboard, | easoned id be wel equipped to file atleast 2 few hundred words por day from the comfort of my hte ok, motel room. | dé however have o ack the charger and ‘nce long since latte travel charger ite device no bigger thar you standard phone chargr- was forcod to pack the whole dock I igured te small price to pay forthe geek cred Id earn fram being s0 vanguard amy teh hirkng | was very pleased wth myself asthe plane touched down and extended the handle of my caryon suitcase sited the baggage cli ine an jined the haltnour wat for atx in to downtown Los Angeles, mies ahead of ll thse suckers wth ‘the mute sutcases and plenty of rean unéerwea was a couple of days early forthe show in questor-he Electronic Entertanment Expo 3) back in the days when consumers wer sil alowed in andit was absobte pandemorium-because there were dozens of press.onty ‘events Scheduled fo the lead tothe oficial apenng.. and more tha afew partes to ht up. That right, after attending a fow ofthe aforementioned press ‘onferences and subsequent parts, | mae i back to my room, nt too much the worse fr wear, t ul together he noes of the day ino some sort of cohesie pre £3 Web site update. With many naigaton woes, yng to get quotes F2 recorded earke inthe day nto my story, | managed te pul Something together and tied o logon fo the Rael (OK, mote wireless. Toro ava scamed for acces points again and are up with naught bt the protected network of 2 Dal bonds ofce nearby. Caling down tothe font desk to try to {get handle on why | couldn't get on the Wels network wasehbeana com ht get me very fa. fel much he braving dowmtown A. especialy not the neighbourhood | was staying in, and | figured 1a just le the story tomorrow. LAs thee hours abead ofthe Teron office so even il coud fle before noon, i ‘out be too big a problem and would be up cn the Web site befor te ofice day realy got started back home. ‘Come the morning-admitedy the late orring as had abt ‘ofa hard tine separating head rom plow that day-my conection problems were stilunresohed. | ied every posse combination or witless options to connect othe ‘ow wise hotel (ok, mote network but to no aval. Fay, | acmite to nyse hat was gong to have to getup, get Adresses and head out to rd a wireless hotspot. Wi Storbucksfuly wed and even MeDonalds folowing st, | figured wouldn't be too dat | tought wong, Los Angeles is avery spread ot place. Fying over on the way into LAX, that much was clear. | waked fora least 10 blocks, te headache earned from the party the night before leting me know realy should ut call tats | waked over freeways, trough ite Mesca, nto China Town, leven found Lite Japon Wnt! iin, however, was an accessible hotspot. For most of my walk, had MiniStumbler (oraenetstumbler com running onthe POA tuned up Several pate business and home networks but not once did find an acessible hotspot By the time the battery ied on the PA, sealng my story fate, [was crenched in sweat, st and ite for an afternoon press conference. | figured that the nextday, te ist oficial day of he show, use the much hyped Wii conection nthe Los Angeles Convention Center to le bo yesterdays and today's stores back home ‘A my tech woes ofthe past days seemed to fade as | ‘managed to get a connection and emal started to come in on the POA. As uch as it came though, the connection was lost. For the duration of the show, I count get conected for ‘more than a mint ata tne. And the Battery ded aga Fortunate, | had the fresigtto print all my appointments for the day before leaving Toronto, Inthe enc de things the old fashioned way; | wrote the day's news in onghand in @ notebook, got to the show eal every morning ta grab a spot on one a the press room computers and retype the stores, fig them drecty tthe Web ste Pehaps not the most elegant of solitons, but it worked. ich s more than | can say forte rest of my plas. 11 had to do over again (wtch did the folowing yews), fa be mor agent in choosing hotel (or mtel witha usable Wireless conection an pack the slatons | ew wore Going to work, pot necessary the ones that took up the least space my luggoe. 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