Exactly. Of the features on my phone that I actually use, the "phone" feature is probably the one I use the least. But I use it a lot for texting, mails, calendar/appointments, surfing and playing games.

I think this is a very good candidate, as I suspect very little computing actually takes place "in the clouds". Apart from some data-transfers via satellite which may require some small amount of processing on the way (though probably not really processing on the data themselves, per se), I'd bet there is a much better chance that your "cloud computing" actually may take place in some server room in a bunker below ground level. ;-)

Oh, how I envy you! I'm currently paying the equivalent of about $125/mo for my 2/2Mbit. :-|

I DO get the 2Mbit each way, as some recent changes in law demands that users get the *actual* bandwidth they pay for, not the *theorethical* bandwidth. If the provider doesn't deliver, you can demand a discount. Because of this, some providers actually give you slightly more than what you pay for, and in some cases they don't offer the fastet deals. I.e. if you have poor copper or are far away from the DSLAM etc.

I agree! Upstream should typically be about 1/4 of the downstream speed to be reasonable, I think. If I need 20Mbit IN, It's pretty likely I'll be sending some data out as well. (Yes, most people probably use it for stealing music and movies, but some of us actually produce data as well.)

This is why I'm stuck on 2Mbit G.SHDSL, which is the fastest up speed available where I live. :-/ I could get som more download speed, but that would cost me the up speed.

For very large areas using such units makes sense, since having millions of square feet (or square meters for that matter) starts to make little sens to John Doe. The numbers start getting so large they tend to become "meaningless". Like with money; I know what I could do with a million dollars; I can see the limits, but a billion? It's so much it may feel you can do and buy anything with that kind of money, but you really can't. :-)

I usually don't adjust all the clocks around the house until my internal clock is adjusted, so there is still some time left. ;-)

This is also part of a plot to phase out any non-self-adjusting clocks in the house. Too bad a stove is so expensive. I wonder if it will be possible to modify it.

Coming to think of it; this is (so far) one of the very few good reasons to have ethernet/WiFi in household appliances.

I usually plug in my phone for charging whenever it's practical to do so. That way I always have a full charge. A habit I have from driving an electric car; no need to worry about how long it takes to charge it from 0% capacity. :-)

Garage:
Arduino+ethernet shield door opener
Office computer
A couple of servers
0-3 computers being worked on at any time.

House:
Main computer
XBox
Wii
Media-center
NAS
3 Laptops
5 WiFi-enabled mobile phones
iPod

Not counting whatever gizmos I might have enabled and forgotten about, and of course there are some Access points. (2 in the house, 1 in the garage). Also, friends and family that are visiting obviously get free WiFi when they are here. So yes, I have plenty of MAC addresses around on my property.

Mostly it's setting up function calls and modifying which parameters are sent to them. Also, as jklovanc suggests, som ecode is often found on the interweb. ;-)

I don't get to do too much real coding these days. :-|

Does copying, pasting and then slightly modifying count?