Gone Wireless
I really like my new sofa. I wanted to sit on it more often when using my laptop. So I bought myself a wireless router and PC Card (PCMCIA) for my laptop, both by Belkin about which I'd heard good things. Setup was simplicity itself. And I'm posting using it now.
UPDATE: And it just works at work too. I work for a very large corporation that doesn't support anything interesting (well, a couple recent versions of MS Windows OSes like managers and secretaries use; most of the interesting people around here do work on Unix-style OSes like AIX, Linux, OS X). The instructions online talk about downloading some custom application from Cisco to use with Cisco-brand cards -- all other card types are unsupported of course. Well, my Belkin wireless card in my Mac works just fine. I just selected LEAP security and gave the network name, username, and password and I'm off to the races. This is being posted wirelessly from my office. Yay for Mac OS X and its implementation of standards. Can you imagine how I get everything to work when it is all so unsupported? :-)