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A bug has been found in Microsoft’s MapPoint online mapping and directions service which may send Norwegian users on a roundtrip through several countries and also including a couple of ferry crossings across the North Sea.

If the user picks driving directions between two Norwegian cities, which can’t be more than a couple of hundred miles apart, the driving directions send the user off on a road trip for 47 hours and 1685 miles later, having travelled though Sweden, Germany and the UK.

Intel recently registered new trademarks that may be an indication of new upcoming products. As a result people have starting speculating what the tradmark symbols mean.

One of the tradmark symbols is ‘VIIV’ – people are currently theorizing that this may be the logo for:

• a new 64 bit CPU (Roman numerals for 6 and 4, although technically it should be LXIV in that case).
• the symbol for a dual core Pentium comprised of 2 Pentium V chips

Although this is simple to do in practice, Java.net have an article walking though how to get Hibernate to participant in CMTs.

Four years since he passed away in 2001, an asteroid has been named after Douglas Adams, the British author famous for his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of books (in 5 parts).

The asteroid is named ‘Douglasadmans’. In 2001 just days after his death, another asteroid was named ‘Athur Dent’ after the main human character in the Hitchhiker books.