Monday, November 07, 2005

A cautionary note...

...to those of you who may visit the Kansas City Public Library's Waldo Community Branch at 201 West 75th Street in Kansas City.

They do not have a wireless network there, and as far as anyone on the staff there knows, the library system has no plans to implement one despite what they describe as numerous requests for it from patrons. However, if you're in the habit of occasionally dropping in with your laptop just in case, you may have noticed a weak signal from an open 802.11b network with an SSID that is different from the library's other locations. Whose network it is, neither I nor anyone at the library knows, but the important point I want to leave you with is that it is not the library's, and if you use it you are doing so without authorization-unless, of course, it's yours or you have permission from whoever does own it.

So should you fail to heed this warning and end up like our friend down in Florida whom I mentioned in my introductory post, don't blame me.

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