The end of the week, semi regular, hand selected, carefully edited snapshot of what made it into my Delicious bookmarks this week.

• Last week I blogged about my experiences with an electronic boarding pass, hosted on my iPhone, while travelling home from Amsterdam's Schipol airport. Cult of Mac came across it, liked it, and used it as a basis for an article. Which was nice.
• Remember those Venn Diagrams you did in maths class? Now you can use one to work out which of the subclasses of nerddom you belong to. Naturally I place myself in the geek with a life subclass, which is strangely absent from the diagram.
• At the weekend I upgraded my work MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard, Apple's latest version of the OS X operating system. And then 4 days later I downgraded it back to Leopard.
• Want to buy used toilet paper, a used tombstone or a rottweiler called Mr Giggles? Some people think you do.

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This week's trawl through my Delicous bookmarks. Actually this is last week's trawl but real life got in the way of posting and I beg your indulgence.

• Last week, Snow Leopard, AKA Mac OS X 10.6 was released though some places seem to now be selling an even more advanced version, Mac OS X 15.6.
• I like chilli sauce, I have a fine and wide range of the stuff in the larder at home; but some people must really really like the stuff to buy it a gallon at a time.
• In my day job I do geo stuff but I wasn't aware that a globe, an inflatable one come to that, has sharp corners and isn't suitable for children.
• While we're on the subject of geo, Virgin Media found out the hard way that place names aren't unique and sometimes there's more than one place sharing a name; Whitchurch in this particular case. Posted via email from Gary's Posterous

It was inevitable, but once I'd found out that a new version of the Cisco VPN client was available, the one thing that was stopping me from installing Snow Leopard, then a Snow Leopard upgrade was on the cards. So off to the Apple Store on Regent Street in London I went.

Once home, it was time to see what's in the package, to which the answer was not a lot, as it was even more minimalistic that the Leopard box.

And then on through the best part of an hour's worth of installation with a single reboot roughly half way through.

... and yes, I do have more disk space now that there's no PowerPC support and so there's no Universal binaries and yes, though it's totally subjective it does feel a darn sight faster. Now to test Exchange 2007 support ...

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This week's trawl through what appeared on the interwebs and made it into my Delicious bookmarks.

• The march towards all things bacon flavoured continues unabated; now you can get bacon (and mint) flavoured, err, mints and that get-you-going-in-the-morning first cup of coffee can now be bacon flavoured as well. Where's this going to end?
• Mac OS X 10.6, AKA Snow Leopard, got officially released today. Some people rushed out, bought it and installed it. But as ever, there's some compatibility problems, not the least of which (for me at least) is that the Cisco VPN client may (or may not) work properly. It's also for Intel based Macs only so a lot of PowerPC based Mac owners are going to be sad.
• First reviews of the new Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy book, not written by Douglas Adams on account of him being dead, find it "not really funny" and "less a case of So Long And Thanks For All The Fish and more a case of So Long And Thanks For All The Money".
• #wherecamp, the geogeeks (un)conference of choice, is coming to Europe in the form of the aptly named #WhereCampEU. Naturally, I'll be there.
• While walking into Soho, I found one of London's lost streets right under my feet. Literally.
• And finally, real men don't rock their child to sleep, they write a shell script to do it for them.

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No Snow Leopard for you with your PowerPC chip.

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