yesthattom | I love wireless technology

Now that the NJ GLBTI Community Center has WiFi, it’s amazing what can happen.

I was there last night to help stuff envelopes for [the event that all my local friends with spare $75 better attend, please please please I’ll be your best friend]. I had my laptop with me. Any time we found an address label with a potentially incorrect address, I would use their WiFi to look up the person’s new address, and update it in our web-based member management system. I was also updating the website of the organization in real time as we found things like, ummm... the mailing listed the URL slightly wrong (so I set up a redirect).

While doing that, I got a phone call on my cell from someone in California who had a bunch of questions. While talking with him, I was IM’ing with a co-worker that was resolving another issue.

When that was done, I got an IM from

qnetter who was about to hop on an airplane and needed fast advice about FreeBSD and in particular Postfix. He emailed me the output of some diagnostics I requested from him. A few Google searches later and I had the answer for him.

Returning to the meeting there were some other issues I was involved in that were helped by checking a few web sites.

I lost count, but all-told I think between the cell phone and the WiFi I was able to resolve about 10 problems in one hour.