Cloudy Thinking

The Fiber to the… (FTTH, FTTX) phenomena has goen mainstream. The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the Fiber-to-the-Home Council recently announced some impressive stats.

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Today is May 31, 2006. I called my Verizon store and asked if they had the Motorola Q. In a word, “No.” They put my name on a list so I’ll be notified when the Q does show up. I did weasel out of the sales rep that — so far — there’s no waiting list for the phone.

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Dick Meyer of CBS News has proposed a cabinet for the (nascent) Independent Party. It’s a fun read.

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Nick Wingfiled of The Wall Street Journal has written an in-depth profile about Will Wright of Sims (and soon, Spore) fame.

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Gliffy is web service where you can create various types of diagrams. No muss, no fuss, no user manual and no paying Microsoft a gazillion dollars for each Visio license.

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MAKE Magazine in collaboration with Making Things has designed a versatile 32 bit controller board, for, uh.. controlling stuff. It’s $150, not bad given the flexibility and processing power it delivers. I want one.

Jim Soriano of TagStream sent a pointer to an AlwaysOn article that crirtiques the economics of using hydrogen as a fuel.

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Seamus McCauley writes: “There’s still a little way to go, culturally, technically and administratively, before we see a mass substitution of Skype for fixed and mobile telephony, but I have no doubt it’s only a matter of time. As Dylan says…it’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there.”

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The QWERTY mobile phone market is cookin’. Today there’s titillating SideKick III news, and hands-on reviews of the Motorola Q.

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If you are selling your home, consider this innovative technique. You might want to stage a birthday party during your open house.

Jeff Clavier writes about his experiences with the Cingular 8125 version of the HTC Wizard. He comments on some soft spots (sluggish CPU, not enough RAM) but there’s good news also.

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Nicholas Zamiska reports in The Wall Street Journal about how The World Health Organization is reacting to the recent human H5N1 bird flu cluster in Indonesia. In this unusual case, seven of eight family members living together in close proximity died, apparently indicating human to human transmission of H5N1.

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