Rude Geek writes:

I recently upset a cafe owner, in retrospect with good reason, for plugging in my laptop without asking.
What is the currently (evolving) etiquette for using someone’s electricity and bandwidth? If I take out my mobile telephone and use someone’s open Wi-Fi network should I ask?

Etiquette would generally suggest that you should never use [...]

Erk. It’s been a while, but I’ve got a good excuse. I’m moving across the planet, from Ottawa to Sydney, and in preparation for this I moved out of my old apartment the other day and into the basement of a friend’s, leaving behind my own DSL connection and home network. Just [...]

On the weekend I had lunch with a group of not-particularly-geeks. I mean, they might be geeks in their own fields, but they’re not the computery open-sourcey Perly type that I usually talk about geeky stuff with. So over our pho (I had the satay beef egg noodle soup, which was pretty tasty) [...]