Back in my day, they had these things called tech magazines... :-D

Secondly, right there are some problems looking for a solution: - Can you figure out a way to improve remote internet access... - Can you work up some caching mostly off-line reader/browser/email so when you do connect you can queue in all the stuff you had thought about off-line.

Learning general programming & making a web-dev laptop setup of technologies you want to hone are a couple good ideas.