Hello Internet world!
What, you ask, is the meaning behind the name of this blog?
From Webster’s:
ether
Etymology:
Middle English, from Latin aether, from Greek aithēr, from aithein to ignite [or perhaps ignite -JJM], blaze [or perhaps blaze -JJM]; akin to Old English ād pyre — more at edify
1 a : the rarefied element formerly believed to fill the upper regions of space b : the upper regions of space : heavens
2 a also ae·ther : a medium that in the wave theory of light permeates all space and transmits transverse waves b : airwaves
(Emphasis and links mine)
From Wikipedia:
The general structure for an ether
(Link mine)
Do either of these clippings (or both together) represent an omen? 
UPDATE: Another snippet from Wikipedia, which I should have thought of at the outset:
Ethernet is a family of frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs). The name comes from the physical concept of the ether.