Wireless blogging

It is now 4pm local time...

It seems that I had three hours to kill at the Des Moines airport and that they had WiFi access. I booted up the laptop and checked it out. The company that supplies the access here offered a rate of $3.95/hour. Since that seemed slightly more reasonable than the $9.99 minimum at DIA I figured I'd bite the bullet and give it a try.

"excellent" signal stregnth got me to the signup page and I quickly registered for an account, credit card number and all. I was told to shut down my browser, restart it, and log in. So far so good. Unfortunately, when I tried to log in nothing happened. "Wating for localhost" my ststus bar reported back to me.

Ah, but there's an 800 number to call for help with problems. Twelve minutes later and I'm still on hold waiting for help…

At the 14 minute mark I've tried logging in again. This time I've got a response:

Error !!

Please contact your service provider technical support!

Ooh, am I becoming annoyed…

15:30 and I've got a human…

According to them I have two accounts.

20:33 and they suggest I reboot.

23:40. Success! The reboot seems to have worked and I'm in.