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The New York Times is running a story today on Austin Wireless City, a project that provides the infrastructure for free wireless Internet at local businesses.

Free wireless is all well and good, but I find their insistence on requiring a login account a little frustrating. A while back the Austin Bloggers crew had their monthly get-together at Opal Divines, an Austin Wireless City venue, and I tried to log on, but I had forgotten my account name and password. I had used the service months before, but the places around campus where I usually use wireless are not part of the system, so I had long forgotten my account. The logon page allowed me to have a new password emailed to me, but, since I couldn't get on the 'net, I couldn't check my email and reset my password. At that point, I was like, "This is stupid," and gave up.