This is good news. I tried Gogo on American for the first time this week. Worked pretty well. I used it to watch my slingbox and I was getting about 400kbps down. I was impressed. The cost would have been $14 because the flight was over 3 hours long. Fortunately, I had a code that I used to try the service for free. The only problem I had was initially after connecting to the hotspot my computer said I had local access only, and no login page would come up. I told a Flight Attendent about it and she said they rebooted the system. After several minutes I got online.

I think it's pretty cool. To see any action you have to let the DVR record an hour of it, then FF or REW at 300x. But a live visible light image of the entire Earth has been on my wish list for quite some time. To appease all you haterz, I doubt they'll keep it online long.

That's actually a pretty sweet model of Vaio. I think it's either a PCG-FX215. I had one for 7 years until I gave it to Mom. I very reluctantly replaced it. Make fun of it if you wish, but my '01 FX215 running XP with max RAM and a newer CPU could hold it's own against newer Vaios running Vista.

This requires installation by a licensed HVAC technician or the warranty is voided. It comes with an equipment interface which is to be installed near your HVAC equipment. It has about 20 wire terminals in it.

So, not only do you have to pay $35 a year for a web portal, but you also have to pay a HVAC guy to install it. I'll pass.