My 7yr and 4 yr old daughters and I went to a kids hike held by a Meetup.com group the Michigan adventure club. They had a great time going. Not only was it a nice day to be outside in the fall, but we had a good time and there were some other nice kids to play with and talk to as well. I so love being outside.

I was listening to TWiT while mowing the lawn today. Show 209, specifically. Om Malik was one of the guests and he said a line that I thought rang true. The panel was discussing how the internet has changed things and where it may be going next. What he said was that Bandwidth is the next processor. I take that to mean that we have so much computing power at our fingertips, that it really doesn’t matter anymore. If we need more, a quick trip to the computer store and a few hundred dollars, and we can increase our capacity by a factor of 10. What we do with that power, is where the future lies.

Om discusses how major shifts in the things we do occur when we have a large change in bandwidth available to us. We have gone from 300 baud dial up to 20 megabaud fiber in the house. This has taken us from simple text based bulletin boards (yes, I am old enough to remember these) to our current online gaming systems.

I think he may be right. As bandwith availability went up, we got things like more use of active content, more media on web sites, Skype, Blogs, Podcasts, and video on demand. These all owe their existence to bandwitdh increases.

What is the next big thing going to be? I don’t know. I am sure it will involve networking though. We have become too connected to give it up. Not only are the networks that come into our house getting faster, but the wireless ones that are servicing our phones are getting faster too. This here is my 1st post from my iPhone over 3g wireless. It’s pretty snappy and I can edit on the fly when I have a little time on my hands. So convenient.

Well, it has not been a good year for the garden.  Although we planted seeds early in the year indoors, nothing much really grew.  Yes, things boomed for about 3-4 weeks, then it just did not get warm, like it should have.  Right now, mid-September there is still lots of green tomatoes hanging on the vines.  Last year, we were picking 6-10 a day!  Not so this year.  I’m really bummed as I planted 7 varieties of tomatoes, 2 of cucumbers, squash, zucchini, carrots, corn and pumpkins. The pumpkins are already orange and picked, the corn is done, the cukes, zucchini and squash are all dead.  Not sure what to think.  Bummer, as the kids loved to go pick and eat stuff straight out of the garden.  I liked it too.  No chemicals, no early picking, I know where they came from.  The only thing I had to wash off them is the dirt from the garden.

I am already looking forward to next year.  Hopefully we can have some sort of garden, even though I don’t know how.  The kids love to watch the stuff grow.  Even more, they love to make something with what they grew.  Seeing the look on their faces as they picked the corn, or grabbed the pumpkin that they grew was great.