Linked by David Adams on Wed 21st Jan 2004 22:52 UTC
If all goes well, this summer I'll be building a new house. I've owned a few houses before, some of them built in the 1920s and 30s, and full of all the charm and quirks of an old house, and a couple that were pretty new, with the lack of craftsmanship and imagination that's typical in most new construction in the USA today. But this time I'm building a custom home, just to my specifications, so I can have whatever features I want, limited only by my imagination (and budget). I'd like to integrate some home automation features into the house, and include wiring for future expansion. 
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Back in early 90's I attempted to get a custom home builder to follow my carefully prepared worksheet of parts and standards of data cabling specs to be used for each room in the house, only to find after the walls had been put up and the painters were finishing up that instead of running data cables, they had carefully installed extra electrical outlets, including making sure they were on their own seperate circuit. No data cables to be found anywhere....