{"id":847,"date":"2010-03-03T09:05:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T14:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2010-03-03T09:28:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T14:28:55","slug":"wonderfully-magical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"Wonderfully magical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here am I sitting on an America Airlines plane traveling NY to LAX. I’m watching The Hurt Locker<\/em> movie on my laptop while I receive and <\/strong>transmit email. Yes, a plane at 35,000 feet with fast wireless Internet. $14.95 for the trip. The movie is engrossing (at least to me) — far more than Avatar. A cute irony of these two is that the directors of of both — James Cameron of Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow of Hurt — were once married. They’re now vying for an Oscar for best director.<\/p>\n

I check into our La Quinta, CA holiday house rental and check its Internet speed:<\/p>\n

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That’s hugely fast. It’s Time Warner’s RoadRunner turbo service, running wirelessly on a Linksys (Cisco) router. I’m 20 feet from the router. I bet it would be even faster if I plugged in or moved closer. I’ll check today. \u00a0Meantime, its speed is a joy.<\/p>\n

“Joy” means it’s both more reliable and you can do more things reliably — like watch online movies, send and receive all those big mega-pixel photos from last week’s party. And suddenly, WordPress becomes magically reliable. Remember WordPress? It’s the software I’m using for writing, editing, composing and designing this web site.<\/p>\n

It’s only yesterday that I wrote a piece on a NYC to LAX plane, then begged an American Airlines lady to let me plug my “laptop” into her landline so I could transmit the story back to my editor — all at 300 bits per second. My line today here in California is 6,500 times faster<\/strong>! That’s in about 20 years. Truly amazing. Imagine in the next 20 years.<\/p>\n

And, to think I once was a part of it with my telecom, networking, computer telephony and Internet magazines and trade shows. Heh, my distributor tells me sales of Newton’s Telecom Dictionary<\/em> (see in the right column) are picking up.<\/p>\n

Consumer confidence numbers are awful. But I’m healthy. The weather in the desert of California’s \u00a0Coachella Valley is gorgeous. There was lots of rain recently. And this week the wildflowers will explode. I promise I will not bore you with flower photos. My partner on the old publishing business is already boring me with bird pictures. He was great in the business at selling and organizing all our salespeople. Now he can identify a bird from five miles away — without even looking at the thing. His new ability gives boredom a whole new meaning.<\/p>\n

I shouldn’t complain. It amuses him. And Nikon sells him a lot of long, big, expensive lenses.<\/p>\n

I continue to like China, Chile, Australia and Brazil.<\/span><\/strong> The markets have recently come in, but I believe they’ll come back in coming months.<\/p>\n

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Good news from the stockmarkets:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cartoon from The New Yorker.<\/em><\/p>\n

And now for one stupid idea the Obama administration hasn’t thought of, yet.<\/span><\/strong> The Mortgage Police.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cartoon from The New Yorker.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Harry Newton, who just bought some 7.75% unsecured notes in TreeHouse Foods. I’ll write more about the company tomorrow. \u00a0Meantime, you can read their prospectus for the notes. Click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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