random thoughts …

I installed the server (or a mockup, it’s not clear exactly what it is) at home, and took a peek at what people were talking about on the forums (ok, ok, “fora”). It looks like the idea is that a company could install their own Wave server and hook it to the net or keep it completely in-house. I can’t comment on what kind of provision has been made by Google so far in the hooked-up-to-the-net scenario to keep purely in-house exchanges on the local server whilst allowing exchanges with the outside world. Not being an expert in the domain, for all I know this is covered by Java / networking / internet protocol policies.

On the wow-everyone-sees-my-every-keystroke point, that makes me chuckle. 1 keystroke = 1 “blip” (their very cute term) which is an XML doc. It’s not a huge XML doc (compared to x10 MB XML docs with insane namespaces I’ve had to handle in the past, etc) but it’s still a factor of ~200 (random guess, can’t be bothered to check right now) chars in the XML to the one keystroke represented. I know that broadband is a reality in 99% of the places that matter (if you don’t have broadband, you obviously don’t matter, pshaw) but the old fart in me still balks at the wastefulness. Oh well. I guess it’s pretty meaningless when you consider that 99% of all bandwidth use is kids on myspace with their “mood=wish my mom would die” and porn.

There, random thoughts. Must GBTW. Take care.