Shorties

Here are a few short, interesting, technology developments from recent weeks:

Sales of Personal Computers rose more than 17 percent for the third quarter of 2005. Many people are changing to laptops and low priced models. Sounds like the latest trend in the automotive industry…"small and cheap".

This week Nintendo will unveil its plan for free Wireless Internet (WiFi) access at McDonalds for its handheld games…I wonder if Nintendo can do something about McDonald's Apple Pies? They’re much too hot.

And speaking of Apple…

Apple Computer has released a Video iPod… Wait a minute…What's Steve Jobs up to?...I don’t even have the audio one yet.

Did you know that the small Audio iPod is called a "Shuffle"? Well...actually it's small in memory, but not the smallest...the smallest...I mean thinner audio iPod is called the"Nano"...it has more memory than the "Shuffle", but less that the bigger "original"...but... physically it's smaller...boy technology can be complicated.

Splog is the new word that is being used to describle spamming a blog…”Can you use Splog in a sentence please?”... Yes…”By the way... the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds now has a security process that will prevent our blog from receiving Splog”... How’s that?