OK, thanks to Mack Reed I got online. The tech people were ultra unhelpful. Their solution to the "the account you gave me doesn't work" problem was "oh, sorry. There's nothing we can do." Turns out I needed to enter the username and password in a DIFFERENT area, and NOT use all the spaces that are printed on the card. Can I just ask what is the point of this? What's the reasoning behind a hidden SSID and all this accounts and crap? For $100 they could have set up and open network and had no complaints. It's not like this is Etech and there are 100 people fighting for a single T1 line. There's like 4 people online, tops.

Caryn just posted her feelings on the evening so far.

Most of the crowd seems to be very amused by us sitting here blogging this. The discussion is about blogs, but I think a lot of these people have never seen a blog, or don't know what one is. At least 5 people have been BLOWN THE FUCK AWAY to learn I'm blogging this *right now.* The guy behind us just said something like "there's no stopping these bloggers, pretty soon they will be writing about things *before* they happen."

Caryn told him she just blogged that. On to Part 3!