Day 113 – 2010

Jeez the fiddling.  Added some plug ins and upgrades, there is always something. 

Baer had surgery yesterday, she came out of it alright.  One of the bumps turned into a major incision.  Now she has a 3 inch gizmo cut on her left shoulder, it is going to take forever to heal. What you do for your best friend.

Baer is doing so so, while Oreo is lounging on the chair

BTW

Cell phone service I was thinking (here we go again, working without tools) the other day about the timeline when cell phone service will become obsolete.  Yes you read right.  Here is the progress on that:  Way back when there were modems at various speeds, 2400 bps was revolutionary. Then it advanced to FrameRelay to ATM (to state the more popular once).  This scenario was replaced by the IP protocol. The access to the internet went from hardwire to WiFi, the personal computer is almost replaced by laptops, which I favored every since they came out. Now the cell phone is a more popular user interface than the laptop.  Parallel to that, we had the land lines, cell phones, car phones, the G services which is now at 4G.  GSM and other protocols in Asia, South America etc where there and more flexible when it came to switching to various other networks. South Korea now has a wireless network which allows you to connect from anywhere to the internet. It is setup similar to the cell phone network. You are always ON.  How long will it take before it hits the United States?  I understand that there is a test bed already.  Sprint is working on something which is going beyond 4G.  So, again, how long before we are always on?  Once we are there, why do we need cell phone service?  All of the newer phones are already wifi enabled and connect to the internet.  Skype is a free app which can be used to do Voice over IP (it is the more known one), therefore you don’t need cell phone service, period.  The question is how will the providers change it so they can benefit from it.  Similar to the access to the internet people use either cable service or satellite service, are the cell phone service providers turn into that?

Quit smoking progress Day 15.2:  force it …   One more incentive to quit – the prices just went up $.021