Tough love tech

I was at the Hutchinson Center branch of the University of Maine last week and I urgently wanted to keep up with the news in the Mideast. I had on my person my cell phone and my iPod touch which is normally full of breaking news items from a wealth of sources, including pictures and live video. But the wifi went down for a while at the facility (and it's normally unavailable in some parts of the building) so I was dark except for the news I heard to and from lunch on the car radio.

I would have been better off packing one of my little AM-FM radios.

Sometimes the lowest tech is the best.