Here in Toronto we had very nice early summer day yesterday, without rain and cloud-free (taking a bit of poetic licence here!).  I was also cloud-free – stayed away from my computer for most of the day!!

Today is another story.  Its humid, dull, cloudy and seems to rain every time I head outside.  It made me decide to do some house cleaning and I ended up hooking up my old stereo to my desktop so I could listen to old Beach Boys songs (while wishing for a real California summer).

Made me wonder when the day will come that everyone will have fully wired/wirelessed (c) houses with loudspeakers in each room, ethernet in all rooms (with plugs in convenient places), tv in the cloud, music in the cloud and likely a large cache for a home server, master control for TV channels and programs, multi-tenancy (each person in each room has personal access and control), guaranteed reliability (with automatic back-up), smart agents to filter things and provide alerts, etc. etc.

Since I’m in an apartment, maybe we should get a “building cloud” that would provide commuity-based services.

I suppose you can actually do most, if not all, of this if you have enough money.  I’d at least like home ethernet and the stereo speakers that are high performance but need no wires and cost very little.  I know I have an ethernet port on my primary stereo system but its too far away from my desktop and needs a bridge……I think I also have one on my TV.  I also have HDMI on my desktop, stereo and tv, but again…..too far away!!

Anyone have interesting stories about how they’ve integrated all the devices in their own home?  The home electronic tool belt, if you want a name for it??