Excellent link, Adam. Boosterism runs rampant everywhere. The only thing you can be sure of is that boosterism never has anything to do with reality.

Google said ... that it would begin signing up its first customers in the fourth quarter of 2011 and light up its service in the first quarter of this year. To date, while the company says it's been putting intense effort into engineering the project, it hasn't begun to sign up customers.

It still hasn't, in fact, announced how much it will charge customers. It has not begun installing the fiber optic network needed for its service. And its prediction of beginning service has slipped to the first half of this year. Just how many months have been lost is difficult to sort out, especially with both the Unified Government and Google refusing to say.

That apparent delay stems from how, and precisely where, Google hopes to hang its data-shuttling glass wire.