I’m at Diedrich’s Coffee right now using their free wireless. It would appear that all the shops in Tustin, Irvine, Mission Viejo, and Lake Forest currently offer free wireless.

New restrictions on text message spam sent to wireless devices via the internet go into effect today.

It’s cold here. I’m outside the Starbucks at Culver and Irvine Blvd. Figured it would be good to get out of the house.

Obviously my new laptop came today. It’s pretty sweet. It feels more sturdy than Inspirons I’ve used in the past, and the lcd is a knockout. I get net access via the T-Mobile hotspot service. If you know me, and you know anything about wireless, this should come as a shock. The access is totally unencrypted, and creates a boatload of privacy concerns. For now, I’m slamming my website traffic through an encrypted ssh tunnel. Might have to go for the old vpn setup. Argh, was hoping to avoid that.

Aren’t I just the sucker for tech?

And now I’m hungry, and Starbucks just closed. I think it’s time to go.

Mobileburn has photos of the forthcoming Siemens S65 phone. That thing looks sweet.

32MB onboard, 1.3MP camera. I bet we’ll never see it here.

South Korea’s third largest credit agency laid of 25% of it work force Friday via SMS. Talk about inappropriate procedure!

Textually.org has references to previous SMS sackings as well. So I guess people really do hate conflict.

Thanks to Will at work for pointing out that you can use AOL Instant messenger via SMS on your cell phone. I found the user guide for my provider, too.

Sure it’s cumbersome, but it may be handy someday.