Expressed: Earlier this evening I checked into a NY hotel I stayed in a week-or-so ago and was disappointed then that there was no wi-fi, just ethernet — strange how I’ve grown to expect wi-fi in every hotel. (As Doc Searls once said, it should be like air conditioning.) Anyway, as I knew the hotel did not have wi-fi, I threw an Apple Airport Express in my bag (I use a couple at home to expand a network and for speakers). While I was fully expecting to spend some time messing with configurations, I’m happy to report that all I did was plug the the Airport Express into the hotel’s connection and the configuration I had from home worked instantly. I don’t know why I’m always impressed when something works exactly like it’s advertised.

Shopping we’d enjoy: If I ever find myself in Huntington, WV, you’ll be able to find me at the new Empire Books & News that opens Dec. 3. It will carry 6,000 magazine titles, a number its owner says is four times more than the “chain” bookstores.

How magazines get started (continued): From the Gwinnett (Ga.) Daily Post, an article about the folks who started the magazine Adventure Sports:

Much like the men and women profiled in his magazine, Scot Love plunged into an unpredictable wilderness where brains are more important than brawn, and many called him crazy for doing it. Love’s journey began about three years ago when he left a successful but suffocating world in the information technology field. By then, he had developed a passion for adventure racing — a sport which combines hiking, rappelling and canoeing through the wild — and he wanted to  create the only magazine whose sole aim was covering the sport.

I remember blogging it soon after it launched and am happy to see that I didn’t say anything snide or dismissive about the magazine’s chances. Obviously, I knew it would do well.

(Explanation: How magazines get started.)