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Well, well, well…
According to this I need a new wireless router because my cable modem’s firmware got upgraded.
Super.
(Honestly, I’m just happy I found the information I needed. Comcast technical support was useless, of course. I’m not blaming the tech support people — They are just trying to get through another day at their their jobs just like everyone else, and they can’t help it I know just enough to get myself in trouble sometimes.
Still, though… If somebody figured out that the firmware upgrade causes bustication with routers equiped with slow speed WAN port, you’d think the broadband providers might want to disseminate that info.)
- Take an eighties-style boombox - a big ghetto blaster.
- Remove tape deck guts.
- Insert laptop guts.
- Use a big hard drive (like 120GB minimum).
- Shield the fuck out of those speakers.
- Replace tape deck front(s) with an LCD.
- Also put a laptop trackpad (or, cooler, an iPod click wheel) on the front.
- Do some outrageous software hacking.
- Optional/Add-ons:
- Replace FM antenna with WiFi.
- Add webcam to send shots of your mad breakdancing skillz back to a blog/Flickr. (Repeat #8)
Voila! iBoomBox!
This scenario works well for everyone except Microsoft. If Intel was able to own the Mac OS and make it available to all the OEMs, it could break the back of Microsoft. And if they tuned the OS to take advantage of unique features that only Intel had, they would put AMD back in the box, too. Apple could return Intel to its traditional role of being where all the value was in the PC world. And Apple/Intel could easily extend this to the consumer electronics world. How much would it cost Intel to buy Apple? Not much. And if they paid in stock it would cost nothing at all since investors would drive shares through the roof on a huge swell of user enthusiasm.
Man, I love it when he gets all kooky with the far out speculation! I kind of hope he’s right, too.
These are my URL ABCs:
- A is for a.wholelottanothing.org - Matt rides a recumbent bike.
- B is for blo.gs - Everyone all the time (BlahStuff came in second)
- C is for corcoranbrothers.com - Shay and the boys keep it real.
- D is for dangerousmeta.com - Garret is not dangerous.
- E is for excite.com - My default portal since, what? 1995? Y’know? Back when portals were the shit?
- F is for floppedthenuts.com - Poker still rules, even if I don’t talk about it much anymore.
- G is for gmail.google.com - Uh… Yeah.
- H is for hasidicreggae.com - Matisyahu!
- I is for indeed.com - Just keeping tabs on the job market, yo.
- J is for jszen.blogspot.com - Scott Andrew LaPera is talking about JavaScript stuff again.
- K is for kottke.org/remainder - Quick links rule.
- L is for leuschke.org/Main/Log - There used to be a weblog, but it doesn’t live here anymore.
- M is for megnut.com - Meg’s life is more interesting than mine.
- N is for news.google.com - Yeah. News.
- O is for oddharmonic.org - Hmmm. Been there once.
- P is for photomatt.net - I loves me some WordPress.
- Q is for q.queso.com - How could it not be?
- R is for rc3.org - Rafe is a daily read.
- S is for soxaholix.com - Yankees suck!
- T is for treehugger.com - Good stuff.
- U is for usaa.com - I’m lucky enough to be a member.
- V is for vh1.com - That’s just weird.
- W is for waxy.org/links - Quick links. What can I tell you?
- NOTHING!?!?!
- ZIP!?!?!
- NADA!?!?!
Jon Udell: Google Maps is a web of linked XML documents
You can append “output=xml” to any Google Maps URL and receive raw XML.
That might not mean a lot to most of you, but to me and those like me, that’s enough to make you pee a little.
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