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The term Weblog turned 10. The word was invented by Jorn Barger on his site, Robot Wisdom. The word was shortened to "blog" in 1999. But while Barger coined the term, he didn't invent blogging. In 1994 a Swarthmore freshman named Justin Hall began a daily online diary called Justin's Links from the Underground that many consider to be the first true blog.

The other big milestone this week is the 60th birthday of the transistor. Today Intel squeezes about eight hundred million of these things onto the quad-core Penryn chip.

Vista tops PC World's list of the biggest tech disappointments of the year. Apple didn't get off scot free either. Leopard was number eight on big list of downers.

A Super NES system modded to fit into a wooden case.

An eBay auction for an AOL disk from 1989.

There are rumors that an ultra portable MacBook will be revealed in about four weeks at Macworld.

A kid gets in trouble, blames Firefox, gets the web behind his cause - then gets found out.

A Unix admin tried to take out the California power grid - by hitting the big red OFF button.

A London cabbie is faster than a driver with traffic enabled GPS...for now.