Philadelphia Airport

Major kudos to PHL. Free wireless! San Francisco was pay for only. Something to be proud about for PHL, wtg Philly.

I am sitting here at PHL getting ready for my 1:10PM flight to Denver, and I have realised that I didn't restore one directory that I needed from my backup device. Fortunately, I have a connection here, so I can restore over the internet and get the work done that I had planned to do. Awesome!
There don't seem to be a whole lot of outlets here though, I hope there aren't too many people with laptops. I'm using two right now as I forgot to charge my phone before I left :(.

Denver

I have arrived safely in Denver. YAY! Denver Internation Airport (DIA) also has free wireless, go Denver! I realised that I had my laptop set on high performance the last three hours which explains why in about 3:30 I drained an 80Wh battery and about half my 56Wh laptop battery. I hope I can get a significant charge on them before this flight, although based on the last flight, I didn't have enough room to do much but watch a movie. Hopefully in the future I can afford business class, or get my boarding pass online ahead of time so that I can get the seat I want.

I picked up a copy of I am Legend at Wal-Mart last night, and watched that. Adding in the extra features and stuff it easily ate up my whole flight. Nice. The movie wasn't stunningly great, but it was entertaining. There is a booth here at DIA that has movies and some TV series that I am considering patronising for additional entertainment. They have a season of Bones which I quite liked, though I'm not sure how much they'll want for that given that regular DVDs are $25. I should have bought a few at Wal-Mart apprently. Oh well, I was hoping to be able to work. It seems that a 17" laptop is not a good fit within an airplane, as once the guy in-front of me had put his seat back, I didn't have anywhere near enough room to open my laptop and type. I had it opened about 40 degrees, perched on my lap at a 45 degree angle, and I can tell you, the vent at the back gets quite hot! Maybe I'll grab one of those sweet 12" sony laptops with OLED screens that are nice and compact and light. I think they have a pretty decent resolution 1440x900 or something, I'll have to check.

I'm not sure how long the flight to Vancouver is, I'm guessing at least another 3 hours. I hope the hotel has wireless internet.

Update:
I take it all back. This connection is the suck. It's flaky, and it keeps putting adverts at the top of my pages. Not only that but it's not letting me send email!! UGH!

The Sandman, Vancouver

The Sandman in downtown Vancouver. What can I say. I'm a business traveler, more than that, I'm a sysadmin of a couple of important systems. I need 24/7 internet access, and this hotel doesn't have wireless high speed internet access anywhere but the lobby. I like a few things in a hotel, a reasonable bed, an air conditioned room, but for me, high-speed is a must have. If I had money I would go some place else right now. Not only that, but my cell-phone doesn't work here so I am totally out of contact. I'll have to look into the cell phone thing if we end up coming up here more often if we decide to work with the folks here. I am full of unhappy right now. I have work to get done damn it.