So today I'm working not from my office in Birmingham, but from the University of York, where my girlfriend, Marla, is doing a Master's degree. Here I am sitting in the library, and I fire up my laptop. Immediately, I see Kubuntu's network manager icon whirring away, and within just a few seconds, I have two bars of wi-fi signal, connecting me to the Eduroam network, a service which currently allows me to log on to wireless networks at universities all across Europe and Australia, using my home university's credentials. Well, until today, that was the theory, but I'd had so much trouble just connecting to the wireless network at my home institution that I never expected it to be this easy. I wasn't even looking to get online today (in fact, I was looking forward to the lack of distraction), but here we are, and I thought it worth a mention.

This is IT done right.