-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Rolf <Robert.Rolf@UALBERTA.CA>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Friday, February 11, 2000 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: Internet Toaster [OT]

BIG SNIP

>To be workable and really cheap you'd need the power company to
>broadcast timecode ON the power line so that some really inexpensive
>RF receiver could decode it. The real trick with that is getting
>the signal past all the transformers in your path from the
>power plant. It would be one way to get all those VCR's to stop
>flashing "12:00".
>
>OTOH if the user hasn't the skill to set the clock on the
>coffemaker how will they set the brew time?
>

Simple. It's a Web-Based Toaster, so use your browser!
It must be both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator compliant,
of course.

Fr. Tom McGahee