I’m trying something new this morning. This post is being typed and posted from somewhere around 30,000 feet above south eastern Oklahoma thanks to the wonders of American Airlines new inflight WiFi. For $10, I get a broadband connection from my airliner seat – how amazing is that? I had expected a dial-up type experience but the bandwidth is actually rather impressive – streaming video, at least of the standard definition variety, plays smoothly and I’ve noticed no delays significantly longer than I would nornally see at home or in the office. Obviously, I have no idea how many people are using the service but I have to imagine that a full flight such as this containing mostly business people would be using the service pretty heavily.

The downside of this, of course, is that flights are no longer an opportunity to read, play games or generally do non-work things (like post to blogs?) during work time. I guess I had better get back to the email….