The Dirty Gig is about to get a little less dirty.
You may or may not know that this travel blog is funded by a second job in disaster recovery, affectionately referred to as the Dirty Gig. Accordingly, in this blog there have been detailed exploits involving 3 a.m. toilet disasters … flooded hospital basements [...]

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It’s been said when you’re #2 you try harder. Perhaps the rest of that thought is that if you are #1, you do whatever you darn well please.
That’s the way it seems at my new favorite coffee shop — Addington Coffee Co-op in Christchurch on Lincoln. It seems like they are only open [...]

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It was a great sign when I saw the surfboards, sharks and Cadillac posters at Fins Coffee shop on Ocean Street in Santa Cruz. Second, it was comforting to see a graying old surfer and his HP on the Internet.
Yes. There is wireless at Fins — if you bring in an AT&T or [...]

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My first Wi-Fi road trip — an 18,000-mile excursion a few years earlier — wrapped up in Austin with a quick visit to the Wi-Fi Alliance world headquarters and another music festival.
So, Austin’s recent SXSW festival was not my first rodeo, but it certainly wasn’t the end of the road either. And frankly this [...]

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From the get-go, let me say that the Wi-Fi network at the Flaming Lips concert in Denton, Texas was sub-standard … because there wasn’t one.
No worries. Most of the audience was toting 3G and 4G phones … and I think their messages were mainly photos and “look at me at the Flaming Lips concert” [...]

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I’ll never forget where I was and what I was doing when I heard the news that Michael Jackson was dead.
No wait … I better write it down.
I was using Wi-Fi at Starbucks, as I am prone to do.
More specifically, I was trading e-mails with an attorney about trademark issues, and beating some dude from [...]

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In 2004 Forbes named my blog “Best of the Web.”  Marketing types from Kodak headquarters contacted me to ask what I would charge for a personal appearance at one of their events. Blah, blah, blah.
That was then … this is now.  I won’t lie.  The Internet is teeming with bloggers now — so I am [...]

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My first marathon?  Ha … I was the official photographer and did the course several times over … shooting photos from the “b..ch seat” — the sidecar — on a BMW motorcycle … long story.
Anyway, the Cowtown is coming … in about 26 days.  Hmmm … Wonder if there is much Wi-Fi along the 26.2 [...]

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