Haha, oh man that must've been so annoying when you sat down and discovered the power plugs right there.
I went through a little of this before my trip...I spent a few hours trying to get my laptop to share my Dash's internet and never got it working. I get to the airport and discover that they have free Wifi in Sacramento and Denver (I don't know why, but it never occurred to me to check whether the airports offered Wifi
).