Have you ever thought, “I wonder what my office would look like with a wall of twelve 30″ LCD monitors?” Me neither. But this guy did, and he decided to build it. Using twelve of Dell’s newly released 30″ monitors, six Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX 512mb video cards, three 1000-watt power supplies and likely the sacrificed soul of a puppy, he constructed a ridiculosly large display with (correct me if I’m wrong) an effective resolution of 7680 x 6400.  Must be a nice view whenever he looks up from his five 32″ Apple Cinimea Displays that ring his desk. Ah, to be independently wealthy…

Google Calendar finally went live late last night. I was able to login using my gmail account and poke around for a few minutes. The interface looks really nice, and a lot of the simplicity of the other Google services seem to be in place. Two things that were immediately dissapointing: no Safari support (albeit this seems to be the norm lately rather than the exception) and no custom recurring settings for events. If you have a class, work or any type of event that doesn’t follow a M-F, MWF or TTR pattern, you are out of luck. This was a bit surprising as nearly every other calendar app allows you to customize how often your even recurs.

On the positive side, there are some really interesting features that are begging to be explored. Calendar Sharing, Invitations, Gmail Integration, Mobile Access and Event Publishing all sound especially promising. I also read that it will import iCal and MS Outlook calendar files so we may be nearing the day that your calendar will be available to you wherever you are. Provided that wherever has internet access I supose.

It’s free and it’s beta and it’s ready to be toyed with. Go have a look! If you don’t have a Gmail account, get in touch with me and I’ll send you an invite.

UPDATE: After some additional tinkering today, I found that you actually do have the ability to schedule events with custom recurrence. One fault down!

In other words, the speed of an OC-192 directly into your computer. The nearly completed standard will use cat-7 cabling and a new type of connector, the GG45. It will be a huge benefit for companies that are pushing the limits of their gig-e connections, and even better for the massive home media networks that we are all building. 10GBaseT is to be approved this July.

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