I’m sure I’ve written about this before, but it deserves as much mention as it can get. The city of Fredericton has this very forward-thinking setup called the Fred-eZone, which provides free wireless access to most of the downtown area. Care and I just got back from stretching our legs in a park along the waterfront, where I had some problems connecting to the wireless zone. The signal strength was only rated as “Low” however, so I originally assumed that was the problem. We eventually decided to give up and just drive to the nearest Tim’s for a pit stop and some coffee before continuing on. While Carolyn ran in for the goods, I stayed in the car with our feline and thought I’d give it one more shot. Then it dawned on me, that the eZone probably had a feature that many free wireless networks do: a requirement that new users agree to certain stipulations (i.e., that Fredericton isn’t responsible if you lose your internet connection in the middle of an important e-meeting, etc.) before they are allowed to connect. So I fired up Firefox, and sure enough found the short agreement page. I accepted, et voila, I was online! It’s started drizzling out, or I’d be outside while writing this. But still, writing blog entries in the parking lot of a Tim Horton’s while on the road is the epitome of cool, in my humble opinion. To those of you in Halifax, I’ll be in touch in another five hours or so.

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