for christmas:

"Had a pleasant surprise when I popped open my iBook this evening to make some notes--someone nearby has an Apple wireless network. The etiquette of jumping in and using their bandwidth is of course questionable, but since I am stuck with an ISDN connection at the moment while waiting endlessly for fiber optics to be put into our building, I'm afraid I gave in to temptation. Result: I now have an updated version of Reason, and hopefully no-one noticed that they were losing a bit of speed..."