Broadband and Sherlock Holmes

Check out this great article on broadband, Japan, and our failing telecom corporations. It highlights some of the growing concerns over the sedated pace with which fiber-optic connectivity is coating the country. While Japan's broadband access allows high-definition streaming and almost countrywide broadband access, U.S. users are limited to low bandwidth, low broadband saturation, and broken promises made by the phone and cable companies. The American people were promised a nationwide fiber-optic network, which has yet to come to fruition. As this remains the case, the US falls further and further behind the speed of, not only burgeoning Asian markets, but also many developing countries worldwide. Though I don't have the exact figures, I know that our country isn't even in the top 50 when it comes to broadband speeds.

So what does this mean for us? Well, as more and more of our investments go overseas, and the growth markets in Asian countries remain prosperous, it is likely that many future innovations in the entertainment and technology industries will be adopted for these markets. As the American growth curve continues to plateau, our country will begin losing out more and more of the inventive energies that are going into these rapidly changing industries.

Our hope is that these corporations, the government, or someone, will open their eyes to this coming reality see it as the global crisis that it may well become and take action to reconcile these gross misappropriations before our country falls behind permanently.

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As for reality, I am preparing myself for a reading of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Silver Blaze, my first crack at the canon of Sherlock Holmes since my childhood. I am reading this as part of literature course on detective fiction, which to my horror, is almost completely made up of logical reasoning!!! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!! No rest for the weary, hopefully a prosperous Holmes report to come...until then...

The Haze II

How difficult is sometimes is to discover your own thoughts. I have lately been in a somewhat mellancholy mood and am having trouble realizing the cause. I suspect that my LSAT preparation is overloading my brain with, not only information, but emotion, expectation, and anxiety. I wish I could take this f#@!ing thing today and be done with it, but alas, I still have four weeks to keep my mind sharp--although this is becoming more and more of a struggle.

I also suspect my mood to be the product of a large combination of starting school, DMCS preperation, sleeplessness, a screaming baby, learning the best techniques for coaching 10-year-old swimmers, et. al. This is a trying month but one that will undoubtedly prove one of the most rewarding, however our generation is increasingly focused on instant gratification and in my situation this aspect is almost completely absent.

As for the haze, it has been lifted by one recent activity that was alluded to in my earlier post, I now wear glasses. As you can see from this picture I am now completely enthralled in nerd-dom. For those of you suspecting this for some time, your suspicions have proven themselves as I am now a card-carrying member of the four eyed miltia. I guess I could have just gotten contacts (or is it contacs? I am really not sure) but I guess I feel like distancing myself a little from the dirty hippie image--while trying to stay funky. Who knows? All just part of haze...perhaps things will be a little clearer in my next post...until then...