2007 will be a wild and crazy year. We’re on the verge of some cool things, which should show up in 2007.

1. A Wireless iPod will ship

Will it be Bluetooth 2.0+EDR with A2DP headphones? Will it be a wifi-equipped iPod? Whatever it is, we’ll see it over the next 12 months. And for the record, the much rumored iPod+Phone won’t count toward this one, at least for my score..

Yesterday’s Denver Post had an article about everyone’s surprise at Nintendo scoring huge with the Wii. The 2nd sentence pretty much sums it up:

A year ago, who would have thought that the best video game of the year would be an electronic version of bowling?

And you know, he’s right.

Hands up, who out there thought that Wii Sports Bowling would be one of the best games seen in 2006? I didn’t think so..

Currently playing in iTunes: Learn To Fly by Foo Fighters

Let’s jump into the wayback machine to this time last year.. I made 10 predictions for 2006. Let’s see how I did. Last year, I hit 65% correct. Hopefully, I’m improving.

1. Tiered pricing on the iTunes Store – Didn’t happen. And the way things look now, don’t expect to see it happen. I missed this one.

2. HD DVRs will drop to more affordable prices. – I’m torn here. The TiVo Series 3 not withstanding, lots of HD DVRs are now within reach of average folks.. I’m claiming this one.

Words cannot do this prank justice.

Tin Foiled Cube.

Currently playing in iTunes: Ask by The Smiths

So I’m taking a little break from Christmas shopping in the Borders cafe. Just overheard someone ask what kinds of coffee was available.

The answer? “We’ve got a regular and a decaf.”

I was inspired by Dave.

I poked around online the other day looking for some PHP code that would do things like tell me whether or not a user was using IPv6. I found some code that did the job after a bit of Googling.

The code was pretty ugly, so I fixed it up. While I was at it, I updated it to optimize it a bit, as well as use conventions found in newer versions of PHP, such as the $_SERVER[] variable array, etc. Further, since I only needed to detect whether or not a user was using IPv6, I was able to cut the code that did IPv6 address compression and uncompression.

So you’ve got a shiny new Nokia E61, E70, N80 or something like that, and you want to connect it to your Asterisk server, eh? No problem. This is an update to an old blog posting. What’s updated? Now it covers the recently released PR3 software for the E-series devices.

I read the IPv6 Howto over on the OpenWRT wiki. It’s got a lot of superfluous info in it, none of which relates to most US-based broadband users. Huh? Most US broadband customers have connections that are dynamic in nature, and do not use PPPoX or PPTP, but rather use DHCP on a standard Ethernet connection.