Technology Is Fantastic!
Dec 26th, 2009 | By Kevin | Category: blogging, personalFor the holidays, I am in Chandler, Arizona visiting my Mom and Sister. While my sister has high speed internet through Qwest, my Mom does not. So I have been walking over to my sisters off and on when I needed a faster connection. Otherwise, i have been relying on my Blackberry, tethered to my laptop by USB for my internet connection, and i must say it has been working great.
Tonight was a test, with installing some new plugins and updating some posts on my sisters new teachers blog at http://www.marylouodell.com . It worked great. The plugins are small enough it wasn’t a big deal downloading them from wordpress.org and uploading them to the site. The theme would have taken a bit longer, but still manageable. Of course I miss the occasional Youtube video, but I could work remotely for most of my daily tasks with just my Blackberry and laptop.
More and more place are now offering free wi-fi around the country which is an added bonus. In Salt Lake, Barnes and Nobles, Borders, and Paradise Bakery all provide free wi-fi now.
I checked out the availability of wi-fi on the ship this morning for the upcoming cruise, and it is available via their satellite system but it comes at a price. $100 for 250 minutes. Part of the cost of doing business I guess. It will be hard for us to be totally disconnected from the online business, so i guess we’ll pay the price. The bonus will be being able to use my blackberry for calling over the wi-fi using T-mobiles UMA connection. It will be a true test of the Blackberry, and it’s worldwide use.
Until next time,
Kevin
Originally from Wisconsin, I moved out to Salt Lake City over ten years ago on a six month software development contract. I now have over 15 years in software development, and was introduced to internet marketing back in 2003. During the wild west days, our business focused on content sites for Adsense revenue. As it became harder and harder to keep up with the search engines, our business has evolved, and forced us to focus on building lists and creating products. We now have a list of about 5000 interested in goal setting, and a small internet marketing list of about 500.