Wifi on the air plane

Since I was going for a week to Dubai I decided to carry my laptop with me so I could actually get some work done while I am there (yea rite).

It happened to be the smartest thing I actually ever did as as soon as the plane took off they made an announcement that this flight, Etihad Airlines Boeing 777 had high speed WiFi internet onboard. For a modest fee of $19 I am typing this blog entry out at 38,000 feet high up in the air and can continue to use it for the remaining 6 hours and 15 minutes of my flight duration.

There is little technology can do to amaze me nowdays but what better way to spend a boring flight that to be have the entire world through the Internet at your fingertips ?

Possibilities are ulimited and Etihad even gives live streaming TV channels once you are connected to their Internet service. No more limited boring fixed movies that they show. Hell I could even fire up Bit torrent and download a movie of my choice at the 10mbit speeds that I seem to get.

Life is good but this is a short holidady and I have to be back in UK by Tuesday, the 29th of August 2006 so that I can give a presentation to the Computer Systems Research group at 10am the next day !!!

Signing out for now…… till later