I recently picked up moderating the EMBEDDED echo.  For those of you who 
don't know what that's all about,  embedded systems are computers that are in 
some other product that's primarily not a computer, like the ones in your 
car,  your microwave,  and so forth.
In a recent message there the subject of home automation came up and I though 
of the folks in here.  Seems to me that a very small amount of hardware to 
control things and a bit of software smarts could go a long way towards 
making things better in terms of what we're dealing with in here.
Feel free to drop by and comment.  Traffic in there is *very* light at this 
point,  not far from zero,  but that's at least partly because of the shaky 
backbone status of the echo,  and I'm dealing with that.
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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