Zoka Coffee and Tea House, 2200 North 56th Street, Seattle (near Greenlake) was suggested by Alex H., who called them and says they confirmed that they have free 802.11b wireless. I also had the suggestion of the Microsoft cafeteria, but that's not open to the public.

Some other possibles (not confirmed):

• SureShot Espresso, 4504 University Way NE
• Espresso Cafe Roma, 4201 University Way NE
• Zeitgeist Coffee, Pioneer Square and Capitol Hill
• Capitol Hill Internet Cafe, 215 Broadway E
• Cafe Stellina, Union and 21st Ave
• All King County Libraries, esp. the one at Crossroads, where you could get a latte at Starbucks and saunter on over to near the library.

It would be great to sit in a coffee house drinking a latte and browsing the web using WiFi. But so far as I know, this is only possible locally at certain Starbucks using T-Mobile connections, for which they charge what seems to me to be a pretty high price. Does anyone know of coffee houses with free WiFi - either in Seattle, the Eastside or anywhere in King County? Let me know and I'll post a list.

Tiobe Software has an interesting chart of current programming language popularity. Even though it's in ninth place currently, they think Microsoft's C# will be number one within two years time.

Goddess Kring visits a sex club in Amsterdam.

The Code of the West might discourage a few city folk from building their dream houses at the end of dirt roads.

Our Russian adoption trip

We've just adopted two small children. We are being kept very busy, so I don't think I will be updating this weblog very often. --Richard