A Cry for Help

So I'm sitting at gate A15 of the Pittsburgh airport, enjoying the uncommonly free wireless internet access during my three hour layover, and I want to hug whoever's idea it was to not rape their customers by partnering with a life- and wallet-sucking evil cell phone company to provide wifi. Damn you T-Mobile, for charging me $7 an hour to check my email and post to aC4H.

Hm, I don't have much more than that to say. Oh wait, here's a fun fact: "WiFi" isn't actually short for anything (many believe it's an abbreviation of "wireless fidelity", but it's not). It's just a catchy phrase made up by some brand management folks so the tech-savvy among us could add another piece of jargon to the alphabet soup world of USB and PCMCIA we inhabit. End fun fact, RI here I come.

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