Monthly Archive for October, 2006

All good things come to those who wait

It looks like waiting for the Core 2 Duo (Merom) update from Apple may have paid off in more than one way. The wireless card appears to be based on the Atheros AR5008 802.11n chipset, dual-layer DVD writing and the hard drive uses PMR!

Of course, if I waited another meager eight months or so I could have been running OS X Leopard on a Santa Rosa based system . . .

TinyURL game

With all the thinking about the semantic web I’ve been doing recently I devised a new game this week. Granted, it would be a lot simpler if the semantic web actually existed but that would take most of the fun out of things.

The general concept is to try and find a TinyURL code that redirects to page relevant to that code. For example, if http://tinyurl.com/heinz redirected to a page about ketchup or baked beans (it doesn’t).

Tip: You may want to turn on the Preview feature of TinyURL if you’re at work or don’t want to be surprised by a result. Like I was when I tried the code “gun” . . .