There are a couple of companies here in Utah that brought ZigBee to my
attention about a year ago. I’ve been following the progress, and
am amazed that the products are now starting to hit the market.
Here in Utah, Control4 is using ZigBee for their home automation systems, and MaxStream is going to be releasing a series of wireless solutions.

This is a great new solution for some very cool applications!

World’s first ZigBee phone unveiled.
But when you’re the first product to support an unratified
standard–for low-power networking, in this case–the question is,
“What does it connect to?” [CNET News.com]

I had to do a quick post while on wireless in Winnemucca. We’re
on our family holiday trip to the California Bay Area to visit with my
parents and sisters and we stopped overnight in Winnemucca.,
Nevada. The Holiday Inn Express has free wireless Internet … of
course.

It’s pretty wild to continue to see the growth of the Internet … and
the expansion of free wireless service. Even in Winnemucca you
can stay overnight at a Holiday Inn Express … and be ahead of a lot
of the people who didn’t! 😉

Well … I didn’t blog anymore from my cell phone … I was getting too
hammered by snow!  I’ll post some pictures … but I’m now down
and done.  The wind turbine is back up and ready to charge up the
batteries in the shed.  If only we now get some wind … maybe
tonight!

CellPost: Well, the tower is tilted down, and I’m about to solder the new connections. Over all, it’s going pretty smooth.

CellPost: Note to self: Make sure to put cell phone in pocket before hiking up mountain in snow storm!

I am up at my wireless communications shed on the mountain behind my house. It is snowing like crazy, however I have to get my wind turbine replaced. I’ve just made two trips carrying tools, ladder,saw-horses, and the wind turbine. I’ll post pictures later …

I have been following Mono on the C# front, however I know that they
are saying they will also support VB.NET.
It’s supposed to be there for Mono v1.2 … and I believe that it’s
going to provide a lot of momentum for Mono.  It would interesting
to
see this Gambas development environment integrated with the Mono v1.2
VB.NET stuff
…

Gambas 1.0 RC4 (Development). A Basic graphical development environment. [freshmeat.net]

I had a friend that has been doing this for year for the court
systems.  They can take audio and video during court hearings, and
then index all of the content.  You can then search through out
the entire hearing for particulat words, etc.  I agree with
Google’s direction … they are on to something cool …

Coming soon: Google TV? [Slashdot:]

I agree completely with Phil.  Why don’t more people and entities
use RSS to let us know about things.  I have numerous Qwest DSL
lines … let me subscribe to the network status RSS feed!  Let me
subscribe to Open Source Software security/update notices.  Maybe
even my local government.

Using RSS for Service Announcements.

Why don’t Comcast and other ISPs use locality specific RSS feeds
to notify customers of upcoming schedule maintenance windows, customer
service alerts, and so on? For that matter, why can’t I subscribe to an
RSS feed for any product I buy that alerts me to upgrades, and so on?
As far as I know not even “in the RSS groove” companies do this. Create
product specific RSS feeds and display them prominently in the “About”
box, the product page on your Web site, and anytime the software is
downloaded.

[Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog]

It’s nice to see some interesting things being done with SVG … it still hasn’t really caught on.

Inkscape 0.40. An SVG-based vector drawing application. [freshmeat.net]

I almost want to start a new blog just about virtualization and
emulations. This is an intersting one that started as a “user
mode Linux” and then went entirely to a Virtual Machine. It
appears to require i386 hardware to create the i386 VMs …

FAUmachine 20041116. A virtual machine that emulates an i386 PC. [freshmeat.net]