War strolling in SE13
Well I had to go for a war stroll… consume.net suggested there was a potential open access node just two streets away, so I got MacStumbler running, slung the laptop under the pram and took my youngest son for a walk. I did toy with the idea of ditching the baby and just taking the iBook for a walk, but then I couldn’t face what that would say about me, and my addiction to technology.
I walked around the neighbourhood a bit, every now and then crouching down, squinting at the screen to see if any new wireless access points had been logged, feeling like a complete idiot.
I did find a new node, a mere two minutes’ walk from my house, but annoyingly I can’t see it from home, not even from the loft. So I needed to locate it more precisely, and I needed to perfect my warstrolling technique.
The coolest way to it it, I reckon, is to set Macstumbler to speak the name of new wireless access points when it finds them, plug in a pair of walkman headphones, wedge a soft toy inside your laptop to stop it going to sleep, put it in a shoulder bag, and… go for a stroll.
Sure enough, half way down the next street, a voice said in my ear “access point Wireless…”