Rob, thanks for the tip about the Vaio 802.11 card. I am currently typing this message on my back deck next to the hot tub on my wife's laptop.

(Oh, wait. Cookies are done, had to bring it inside to take them out of the oven. )

Nifty little card, and unlike the Linksys card I tried last winter, its drivers work with the wireless routers my ISP is using.

I can even print from this thing to our Windows print server, even though it's on the other side of a wireless router on a differnet subnet.

And the "anti-protrusion" antenna is THE BUSINESS.