tired (as usual), but it's been a couple of decent days. there's always value to team meetings (which brought me here), but the real value of these visits is in the sidebar chats...
seems when i'm on domestic travel i never watch the tube, but when overseas, i've always got it channeled to cnn or some such. odd assortment of news today, e.g. kofi annan may be experiencing the trashing of one of the world's most valuable brands (his name), and, speaking of tubes (on a couple of levels), seems the big potato has found himself hooked up to a feeder. shades of the ironic aneorexic in florida...
spring break for the kids at home this week. heading that way myself tomorrow. friday together. sweet.
while i'm rambling, convergence (painfully overused) is on the mind again. 'been thinking (again) about access alternatives in the home, and beyond. why do so many people have fully-loaded (and real estate-abusing) pc's at home when all they use them for is streaming, browsing and messaging? might be because the easy-to-use, reasonably-priced (sub $200) portable alternatives don't yet exist. after all, you really just need one thick pc as a server, all purpose application and storage hub. what this world of heavy (and rather rapidly increasing) broadband penetration and cheap and easily-deployed home wireless networks really demands are thin and portable (and relatively cheap) clients for the home as "mobile" alternatives to yesteryear pc's. gonna be a sweet market for whoever grabs it...
homeward bound in just half a day. as ever, can't wait...
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