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I went to Buffalo and all I got was this lousy punch

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

I recently got back from a trip to Buffalo, NY for a friend’s wedding and I’m left feeling like I narrowly escaped being sucked into a time portal back to 5 years ago. Don’t get me wrong, for a city in the midst of the rust belt, Buffalo is not an impossible place for a web developer to continue the work of the Intergalactic Web. There are safe havens like Spot Coffee, offering free WiFi, that will help see you through the industrial muck. For someone like me, even the slightest interruption in internet connectivity is like cutting into my oxygen supply, so more than ever I found myself deliberating on city-wide free WiFi plans and wondering what the hells taking so long? Google has been talking about this for over 2 years, but is this the right way?

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