When Watson met Wilczeks
An historic meeting has just happened in Palmerston, New Zealand. Investigator Betsy Devine writes (and writes, also, about this phase of Internet-availability history):
Here you see Frank with New Zealand?s own James Watson?no, not the infamous James Watson biology Nobel but the deservedly honored (with a 2005 Ig Nobel Prize) author of a paper on Mr. Richard Buckley?s exploding trousers.
New Zealand is a lovely land full of surprises, whose only non-good surprise has been just how hard it is to get internet access even from hotels that advertise ?broadband internet.?
Item: Palmerston North Coachman Hotel, where we paid for ?broadband wifi? and then discovered that the signal didn?t reach as far as our room.
Item: Albany Executive Inn, just north of Auckland, which charges $4 for your first 20 Meg per day and $.15 more for every Meg on top of that level. Heck, 20 Meg hardly covers my uploads to Flickr!
