Josh Bancroft of TinyScreenfuls is attending a convention in Portland and was not happy that the provided WiFi connection was going to cost him $12.95 per day. So he did what any proper geek would do, tethered his Sprint phone with EVDO to a PC and shared it with friends at the convention. A little mobile WiFi hotspot never hurt anyone. 
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