Programming Coffee

Free WIFI for me!

After having left the warmth and free wifi all over downtown Chattanooga, I have come to realize that I REALLY love wifi!!! When I was in Atlanta, things weren't all that bad... I was unemployed and all, but I did have a subscription to the Tmobile hotspot network at the Starbucks. It was quite a nice arrangement for me. I could go to one place, and have coffee and wireless, and not have to worry about all the distractions I would encounter at home. Now I live in smalltownfieldville... I think the population is between 25-50k. Its growing quite quickly, but still a small town. I see all these businesses that have been around for a while, and I see the wave of the future getting ready to replace them. It is quite sad. There are currently 3 coffee shops (to my knowledge) in Valpo, 1 being a drivethrough only and therefore not admissible for this conversation. The other 2 coffee shops though are both very quaint little places, but have 1 main problem. They both close early. Im talking early like 6-7pm. Fortunately they both host an open-mic night, and therefore stay open later on those evenings, but still...7pm?? In addition to that, both of the coffee shops now have websites (I am in the process of creating one of them), and the other shop has a crappy .biz domain. I'd try to convince the other shop that they need to get a .com or .net, but there is another coffee shop by the same name that already owns them. Moving along from that though, Valpo is supposed to be getting a Starbucks fairly soon. This could mean wireless access, or it could not. But these other coffee shops have almost nothing to contend with Starbucks except for the *local* atmosphere. I personally would rather go to a place with local atmosphere, but If i can get better coffee (sorry other coffee shops...), and wireless, and at a later hour, then Im going to starbucks... Wired has an article about Wifi that was fairly interesting that relates well to this.