McDonald’s WiFi
So ghetto, so true. Photo by Trent M
Everybody’s in short sleeves and there’s no money on Fridays. There’s nothing happening on the road so I pull into McDonald’s for the WiFi and answer some emails from a client. I’m overbooked this month and no amount of gadget shopping buys me any time. Spent all day staring at the back of a fucking Skyline on Galle Road, but I a) got an iPod and b) hooked it up to the car stereo. Stop-and-Go gives me more time to changes songs. The iPod Video is slim and beautiful, but the thing really does scratch like a kitten. Sounds nice though, and it sounds much better than the preamp in the car. Started listening to the Cure in the bright morning but switched to Depeche Mode as the traffic got worse. Lost track of where I was and ended up in Dehiwela. I know that traffic warps the fabric of time, I think it does something to space as well.
This is a useless post, guess the only useful info is that Colombo has enough WiFi hotspots that I can almost get most vital communications done on the road. I use the McDo in Colombo 03 the most, followed by Barefoot. Barefoot is nicer and I can eat there more than once a week, but the staff is only vaguely aware that they even have WiFi. Have to get the access code from lady in the office. Barista on Galle Road is also kosher in my experience. Speeds are pretty gd fast, though I haven’t tried downloading music here. It is really nice, however, to be able to write a post and respond to some emails out of the house.
I started off not really liking General Sarath Fonseka, him being part of the aggressive war effort. I didn’t support the war (largely cause I thought it would fail), and I thought Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Fonseka were gleefully stomping everything. Fonseka even came out and said “I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese but there are minority communities and we treat them like our people,” in 2008 (
General Sarath Fonseka was arrested on a bunch of trumped up charges, but mainly for daring to threaten Mahinda in a Presidential election. Despite his poor health, Fonseka was arrested in February 2010 and sentence to three years. Word on the street now, however, is that he’ll be released soon. Like any day now. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told 
I’ve been testing a lot of apps. A very interesting one is iPlayboy, from Playboy magazine. It’s bad porn but a good magazine, especially since you can read issues from its cultural heyday – the Mad Men era of the 60s.
I’m going to get back to blogging. I buy a shitload of stuff on my iPad. Not that I like spending money, and the exchange rate terrifies me, but it’s just so easy, and so good. For example, I’ve been reading comics again. Spiderman, and 
BTW… what do these various wifi places (like macdonalds) charge ? Or is access free?
McDo is free, as is Barista’s, in my experience. Have to ask for an access code at Barefoot.
Wow…that’s super…I thought you had to purchase some sort of card for like 200/-…
Guess I’m going to be haunting WiFi spots too…