On my way home from Washington, where I went to speak on a security-versus-privacy panel last night at the annual Investigative Reporters and Editors conference. Only the panel got canceled when the Bush administration told its Transportation Security Administration honcho not to appear. Well, I got some work done on the book, anyway, and had dinner with friends I hadn’t seen in some time.
I stayed at an otherwise fine hotel that listed “wireless Internet” on its Web page as being available in its rooms. Little did I know that they were stretching the definition beyond recognition — they claimed the WebTV and remote (infrared) keyboard were the wireless Internet referred to on the site. Oh, sure.
They are, at least, putting in the real thing in the next couple of weeks, according to the hotel’s general manager, who agreed with me that the website was at best misleading. He removed the cost of my ISP phone calls from the hotel bill, at least.
Sheesh…