OMG, How Freaking Cool Is This?!

My flight from Dulles to San Francisco has wifi!

I'm 38,131 feet above sea level somewhere over Denver and I can check my email, update LJ and Facebook and update DC Diamond Circulate files, all from seat 19A!

According to Speakeasy.net's quick and dirty speed test, I'm getting 1922 kbps download speed and 296 kbps upload. I so wish I had traceroute on this laptop... I'd love to probe the network to see how this is set up. :-)

Now if only my Crackberry could get a signal... My Crackberry is now getting a signal and is going insane downloading hundreds of emails and Facebook updates. I think it's going to burst into flames from the sudden traffic.

OMG, How Freaking Cool Is This?!

My flight from Dulles to San Francisco has wifi!

I'm 38,131 feet above sea level somewhere over Denver and I can check my email, update LJ and Facebook and update DC Diamond Circulate files, all from seat 19A!

According to Speakeasy.net's quick and dirty speed test, I'm getting 1922 kbps download speed and 296 kbps upload. I so wish I had traceroute on this laptop... I'd love to probe the network to see how this is set up. :-)

Now if only my Crackberry could get a signal... My Crackberry is now getting a signal and is going insane downloading hundreds of emails and Facebook updates. I think it's going to burst into flames from the sudden traffic.

Geekness Con't

According to my flight monitor, I've just crossed the border from Utah to Nevada at 497 mph at 38,120 feet.

DC Diamond Circulate has an update to send to registrants (new newsletter, survey for kosher meals, etc.). While I have a list of 600 emails, our ISP would identify us as a spammer if we were to email out the entire lot at once. Thus, we've broken up the list into six batches of 100, with no more than 200 messages to be sent per hour.

Last night before going to square dancing, I sent the email update to the first two lists. Before going to bed, I sent the next two. From my airline seat 19A, I have successfully downloaded Thunderbird to my laptop, configured it appropriately to use my "registrar at dcdc2009.org" account, access a copy of the original notice from my gmail.com account and use authenticated SMTP to send the last batch via my Earthlink DSL provider. I've also emailed the minutes of our Jan 8 convention planning meeting to the DC Lambda Squares board while crossing the border from Nevada to California. Total score!

OMG, I love living in a connected world!

On a side note, I didn't get the rest of the snail-mail newsletters printed & sent before I had to leave home. My lovely new laser printer ran out of toner and while I have ordered replacement cartridges, they haven't arrived yet. Still, I have the PDF file, the remaining envelope labels and a small stack of envelopes so if I can find an available laser printer somewhere in San Francisco which can print dual-sided, I can get these tossed into the mail while I'm there.

Geekness Con't

According to my flight monitor, I've just crossed the border from Utah to Nevada at 497 mph at 38,120 feet.

DC Diamond Circulate has an update to send to registrants (new newsletter, survey for kosher meals, etc.). While I have a list of 600 emails, our ISP would identify us as a spammer if we were to email out the entire lot at once. Thus, we've broken up the list into six batches of 100, with no more than 200 messages to be sent per hour.

Last night before going to square dancing, I sent the email update to the first two lists. Before going to bed, I sent the next two. From my airline seat 19A, I have successfully downloaded Thunderbird to my laptop, configured it appropriately to use my "registrar at dcdc2009.org" account, access a copy of the original notice from my gmail.com account and use authenticated SMTP to send the last batch via my Earthlink DSL provider. I've also emailed the minutes of our Jan 8 convention planning meeting to the DC Lambda Squares board while crossing the border from Nevada to California. Total score!

OMG, I love living in a connected world!

On a side note, I didn't get the rest of the snail-mail newsletters printed & sent before I had to leave home. My lovely new laser printer ran out of toner and while I have ordered replacement cartridges, they haven't arrived yet. Still, I have the PDF file, the remaining envelope labels and a small stack of envelopes so if I can find an available laser printer somewhere in San Francisco which can print dual-sided, I can get these tossed into the mail while I'm there.

On the Ground

So far, everything is going well. Even the weather is nearly perfect!

My flight was a delight, I was able to collect my luggage and find the car rental agency easily. My car was indeed waiting for me and my Crackberry's GPS helped me get from the airport to the hotel with minimal pain.

I've checked in at the Crowne Plaza Mid Peninsula and connected to their free in-house wifi. I am now going to find my way to the nearest Caltrain station which is, I'm assured, at a local mall where I hope to grab a quick bite for lunch.

On the Ground

So far, everything is going well. Even the weather is nearly perfect!

My flight was a delight, I was able to collect my luggage and find the car rental agency easily. My car was indeed waiting for me and my Crackberry's GPS helped me get from the airport to the hotel with minimal pain.

I've checked in at the Crowne Plaza Mid Peninsula and connected to their free in-house wifi. I am now going to find my way to the nearest Caltrain station which is, I'm assured, at a local mall where I hope to grab a quick bite for lunch.