I managed to get out of work a bit early yesterday (it’s a holiday week, so I am doing 8 hour days) and on the drive home, while listening to the [url=http://www.twit.tv]This Week in Tech[/url] guys talk about King Kong, I decided I would try to catch the movie. But I didn’t know when it was playing and since it’s a 3 hour long flick, I knew the shows probably wouldn’t be very frequent. So, rather than take my chances driving all the way to the theater I stopped to get gas. Why? Well, I deduced that there was a good chance that the gas station would have a wifi signal that I might be able to hop on and check the movie times with my Palm T|X.

I pulled in, and while waiting in line I fired up the T|X and scanned for any WiFi signals. There it was! A fairly strong, unencrypted signal most likely coming from the gas station office. I connected with no problem and surfed over to the cinema’s website. Unfortunately, Kong was not playing for over an hour and a half, so I decided to go home.

I was thinking about checking my email just because I could, but decided against it. This is a temptation that should be resisted on any unprotected WiFi connection. Who knows what data is being stored by these guys.

I look forward to the days when WiFi will be available everywhere.