I've been getting on very well with BootCamp recently, and I'm perfectly able to play a couple of games on my Mac and run a few annoyingly PC only pieces of software. As far as solutions go it's prefect except for the fact that digital audio out doesn't work and when you plug headphones in the speakers keep working. In the meantime Parallels have released their virtulisation software that allows you to run XP from inside of Mac OS. It looks like an interesting solution, but it isn't anywhere near useful for me because it doesn't support 3D graphics. This isn't...

One of the things that really interests me are the writings on random stones used for buildings in this country. Over the years buildings have fallen down or been demolished and so stones have been reused in out of context from where they were intended to be and this sometimes means that you'll get the odd stone that has decorative carvings or writing on them. I find these really appealing and whenever I see a Church or house that has a word or two randomly placed (often upside down) halfway up a wall the knowledge that it probably came from...

My experiences with using a Mac full time have been generally very positive, but there are a few things that I'd like to see changed. Time to rant I feel. Stability. Sure, Mac OS is stable but the UI sure as hell isn't. Apparently applications can't damage the system when they crash, but I've just recovered from a problem where Safari and Firefox would crash on startup by having to restart. Yesterday I had to do a hard reset because every application had a spinning beachball of death. I'm also afraid to leave Rosetta applications running all the time becuse they'll...