I'm off to Hobart this morning on an early flight from Adelaide via Melbourne. I'll post a quick Hobart image before I catch the cab to the airport:

Gary Sauer-Thompson, Gas Company Hobart, 2007

I've taken the few moments in the Qantas Club in Melbourne between flights to look for wireless hotspots in Hobart. I am surprised by Hobart not being a wirelessed city. Unlike Adelaide, the free wireless hotspots are minimal. For some reason I thought that Hobart would be a wirelessed city--to give it a competitive edge in the global economy. However, not even the State Library is wirelessed.

What's happening? All the government's money going into subsidising Gunns and their pulp mill in Launceston? Is the state so caught up in the old resource economy that it is not willing to embrace the new knowledge economy?

I'm in the Hobart Qantas Club so that I can access broadband on their computers. I've discovered that only Sushi has a free wireless hotspot that allows me to use the laptop I'm carrying with me. So its off to the Old Wool Store Apartment Hotel

Update
Suprise suprise. The Old Woolstore Apartment Hotel has broadband access (cable and wireless) at $5.00 a day. What a welcome change from the standard $20-25.00 a day that most Australian hotels charge. So things are beginning to shift.

I'm back in the same wharf area of Hobart that I was here in July. I'm a block away from Hobart’s waterfront this time. An imag from last time:

Gary SauerTthompson, public sculpture, Hobart wharf, 2007

I do not recall the name of the explorer. Nor can I remember what I did. I just remember the icy cold of dusk.

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Posted by: Les | August 24, 2007 02:52 PM

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