The Mobile Office Blog

Off the topic of mobile office technology: I ran into a great site today.  Wordle.com makes word clouds out of the content from your site.  I thought that since it looks so neat, I'd go ahead and put it out here.  

OK, so I guess it does have something to do with cloud computing, since it's available over the web and it does make a cloud ; )

I could have started this post with "Richard Stallman vs. the next thing that he doesn't have source to" but I decided to stay on point.

Guardian has posted and article in which Richard Stallman complains about Cloud Computing saying that web based services are a trap and we're all giving all of our precious data away to the big boys out there.

This type of comment is to be expected from Stallman, the founder of FSF and the creator of GNU who was featured prominently in the open source documentary "Revolution OS" from 2001.  His interviews and comments in the documentary reveal that he wants all source to be open and free. 

IMHO, his idealistic views lower his credibility on the subject...

I want to take this opportunity to thank Brian who just installed my Verizon FIOS internet service.

 As you can see from the picture, FIOS is fast at my new apartment here in Dorchester, MA.  Now I'll need to get more stuff to hook up to the WiFi to see if I can slow it down.

 Interestingly enough, FIOS requires the installation of this really big box where the utilities come into the house. This box is wired into the electric for battery backup and they also had to run some new fiber from the telephone into the apartment.  Pretty neat.  

 I only started with the internet service since I'm still paying for Comcast at my condo in Atlanta and my phone service is all through Vonage (and Verizon doesn't offer TV in this location just yet.)

 As I play more, I'll keep you updated on how FIOS works for me.