Early (pre-6AM) rise this morning due to the missus trip to the East Coast. Easied into the day by watching 3-4 episodes of Alias season 4. Woke up thanks to 2 cups of latte.
Then I decided it was time to switch out the weakest link in our home network - the Linksys wifi router 802.11b (so 90's) - for the Apple Airport Extreme Base Station (802.11g). I never thought that a commodity like that could be differentiated but what a positive surprise. It took me 2 minutes to hook up and suddenly I felt a snappiness (Yahoo! speak) in the network applications that I haven't experience before. I'm now what marketing folks would call a delighted customer eventhough it set me back the equivalent of a case of Allende '03.
I'm getting so close to the vision I had several years ago of having one 'affordable' (key word) server that store and streams anything audio and video as well as having free VoIP accessible from anywhere in our pad. Next steps are to exchange our current home theater system for something much sleeker / portable, add another flat panel TV in the living room and some streaming hardware / software (Mac-2-TV).
I want to listen to music and watch movies when I WANT without commercials trying to sell me the next Ford F-150. I also like to to bring those assets with me when I travel. But what I really want is to be able to access media just like we are making cell calls today across the world - anywhere, anytime and on any platform.
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