Lots of things going surprisingly wrong here on Day 0 of CES. No separate lines for pre-registered and onsite press registration. The Press/Blogger lounge has free coffee, but no wifi — so not much blogging going on. Folks there said it was “still being set up”, but seeing as how the Venetian just asks for a registration code to use their existing network, it’s not clear how much setup is really necessary.

Amusingly, I’m writing this from a free (albeit slow) wifi hotspot elsewhere in the hotel.

The CEA Visions magazine says we should all flock to social.cesweb.org to network with the other 110,000 people here — and that page has the 2010 version of a Geocities “under construction” page. They’re “working around the clock for a beta release.” Beta? The show goes live tomorrow, guys, and a bunch of us are already here.

No complaints — already the press is getting free stuff, and Toshiba came through again with a nifty ballistic nylon shoulderbag. I just sort of figure that CES would have the kinks ironed out by now; seeing them drop a few minor balls is surprising.