Wireless at last

January 20, 2004 D. H. McKee

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Tested my Orinico Gold card for the second time today. It was the first time on a wireless network, one which I created at work for the purposes of testing our app with wireless handheld devices. I found the experience to be not too bad — the feeling of being connected to the internet without any cables was a good thing….

So now I’m at the William’s Coffee Pub in the University Plaza, trying out their wireless hotspot. It *appears* to be free still, even though the word was that they were going to begin charging at the beginning of January. It looks as if I have “2159 hour 55 min 52 second” left on my “prepaid session” so I’m cool with it. They require you to sign up first, but I used a throw-away email address, and they didn’t ask for any billing information. Pretty schway, I suppose. I’m a little surprised there aren’t more hotspots around town, this being Waterloo and the “Golden Triangle” and all…

By the way, this coffee is terrible. Go for the hot mulled cider instead.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.