Automated truth

[ewx]

On this computer, if I type “www.” in the address bar, it completes to www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/spoolstats. My laptop prefers www.ocado.com, computers that I can take into the kitchen being better for online groceries than computers that (checks…) I cannot lift with one hand. Actually it seems like the kind of task that a tablet computer might be good for, but not enough so to justify the cost.

What do you get?

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[fluffle.livejournal.com]

okay so, if I just type 'www' I get "www.nationalrail.co.uk/ldb/bpw"
if I put the . in and type www. I get googlemaps.

not entirely sure what that says about me. I'm doing a lot of travelling at the moment!

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

http://www.ebi.ac.uk - boring, huh?

[rowan-leigh.livejournal.com]

There's no autocompletion as such, but the first link is that of my GP's surgery. Possibly because including the www is mandatory for that sort of .nhs.uk address.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

"www" gives me Amazon, "www." gives me a bunch of internal sites (I'm at work), none of which have "www." in the URL nor in the title. Bizarre.

[mair_in_grenderich]

facebook

[aldabra]

"www" is the UL, which I've been looking at this evening. "www." is theautomaticearth.blogspot.com, which I notice doesn't start with "www.".

[timeplease.livejournal.com]

www gets me www.hmrc.gov.uk

www. gets me forums.bipolar-flag.org

[twigletzone.livejournal.com]

Facebook. *shame*

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Hm. I get Charlie Stross' blog! I don't actually go there often: I guess I don't type www unless its needed, and his was the most common site of those geeky enough to default to using www?

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

www.mersenneforum.org

It's a forum about, amongst other things, factoring large numbers.

[lnr]

Actually the ocado app on the iPod is pretty handy for that :)

[keirf.livejournal.com]

I have an Archos 101 g8 tablet which I use in the kitchen to display recipes. It has a kick-stand which makes it useful for this kind of thing.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ARCHOS-10-1-GB-Internet-Tablet/dp/B00422W5QO/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327050883&sr=8-1-fkmr0

It's also hackable - I have bodhri Linux running as a second operating system on it. It also works nicely as a uPnP/DLNA player to keep the kids busy by streaming cartoons from the network drive (and can play them out to the TV too through the HDMI port).

It turned out to be a lot more useful than I though it would.

[pne.livejournal.com]

www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/tumblr on one browser, http://www.timeanddate.com/weather/germany/hamburg on the other for 'www' but https://apps.facebook.com/thesimssocial/ for 'www.' even though there's no 'www.' in that URL at all. (Firefox's all-in-one-bar must have been doing some strange guessing.)

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Mine is Women's Hour. I guess BBC is near the start of the alphabet.

[sparrowsion]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ on both laptop and desktop, with or without the dot.

I still type the "http://" when entering URLs, which, at that point, completes to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ too. However, stopping short of the final slash gives me pages I'm working on on the desktop and LJ on the laptop.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

GMail, followed by Twitter :P

[venta.livejournal.com]

www.lloydstsb.com, apparently.

It's not clear to me why, because the URL (which I do normally type in manually) works without the www. Perhaps it didn't used to, and I got into the habit? I rarely type in www, and get mildly put out by sites that require you to do so.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

On this machine. www.reddit.com.

Probably a bad sign really.

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

On this machine? http://www.w3schools.com/

[rmc28]

At work: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/

(I think this says a lot about how I spend my lunchtimes, especially on Wednesdays for PMQs)

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

www.ebay.co.uk for www, ghoti.livejournal.com/friends for www. Which is odd, as I don't put a www. in that.