I went to the newseum today in Arlington. I went to go look at the Women Photographers Exhibit, but I didn’t know they have a September 11th exhibit as well. They have more than just the front page headlines on the web site. They also have Bill Biggart’s Camera and camera bag on display. All the film photos were destroyed but his digital images survived. I would have thought this would have upset me but the display that upset me the most was the widescreen TV playing local news covered at the pentagon. I remember watching this in operation center at my former company. They played the segment where everyone was told by the police that there is another plane coming in and everybody had to move back. I remember looking out the window wondering if I would see it fly past, wondering where it was going to hit. People say they remember where they were when Kennedy was shot. I think I will remember where I was when I first heard the world trade center had collapsed.

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This looks interesting. I have a vision. The vision is having a universal connection that allows all devices to know about each other and be able to talk indipendantly to each other. For example you have a DVD and a TV. You plug both into a network and they automatically find each other. One cable. I then add another TV upstairs to the network. It automatically finds the DVD player and allows you watch and control the DVD player remotely. I then add speakers to the network and they can be fed audio from any device on the network. You then Add a tivo. Any TV on the network can watch and control the Tivo. You can then add a computer and watch video from your dvd player.

I already have bits of this set up. I have a Tivo down stairs and a TV card in my computer so I can watch either the Tivo or live TV. Once I get some spare money i am going to add a serial cable connection from my TIVO a computer so I can remotely control the TIVO and also connect the TIVO out visa my cable modem so it doesn’t have to use my telephone line. This computer will also be an MP3 player for music downstairs. I have also played with real server and real encoder so I can take the output from my tivo and watch it on any computer on my network, but I wasn’t very happy with the quality of the image it produced. Using Obsequiuiem it would be possible to stream the audio across my internal network so I can play and control music in any room with a cheap computer and speakers. I have been thinkings about getting a bare bones PC with CDROM for about 200 dollars that I boot off a CD for the audio stations.