Yay! AT&T; @Home, the cable modem service, is being rolled out in Sunnyvale, CA starting today. I confess that I have phoned @Home almost every month for the past three years to ask if they were servicing my area yet. I don’t know why I got so attached to the idea of having the Internet delivered over my cable wiring, but ever since a friend of mine got their service as a beta tester years ago, I have been enamored of the idea. I’ve heard it’s not terribly secure (with neighbors showing up on your Network Neighborhood) and that speeds decrease with more people on the same wire, but there’s just something about it that feels really cool. Maybe it’s the idea of retrofitting something on top of a TV delivery mechanism (uh, wouldn’t that be “a kluge“?). Maybe it’s the horror stories friends tell about getting DSL, losing their regular phone service, and having terrible transfer speeds. Maybe it’s a glamourized notion that AT&T;’s customer service (even if it did used to be TCI) has got to be more responsive than PacBell’s. At any rate, I’m planning to sign up. I can always cancel it if I don’t like it. I’d rather my cable TV stopped working than my phone. (I’d get more things done!)