Reuters reports, "San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom set a goal on Thursday of providing free wireless Internet activity in his city that sees itself as a vanguard of the Internet revolution.

"We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless Internet service," he said in his annual state of the city address. "These technologies will connect our residents to the skills and the jobs of the new economy."

"No San Franciscan should be without a computer and a broadband connection."

I've finally stopped buying computers and internet connections for home. Over the years I've spent a fortune being the first on the block to have 56K, ISDN, and finally DSL. I've bought an Macintosh 8500 the day it came out and built a dual-processor rack mount W2K server, just to see if I could. Then I started working and my employers have always been kind enough to fund my habit... until cell phones. I've had 6 phones in 4 years. My latest is a Treo 300 that I love. It is beat to hell because I always have it with me. I use it to check the news and my mail in the morning, IM and email when I'm on the road, and play a few games a scrabble when I'm winding down at night. I'm using it right now to post to this blog while I sit in wireless-less Barnes and Noble. I paid $500 for this phone the week it came out. A month later I could have bought it for $250.