Here’s a simple how-to for installing Windows Vista Ultimate x64 on a Mac Pro. Get a Mac Pro. Mine is a 3 month old Quad core (2.66Ghz) Xeon with 4GB Ram and a number of SATA drives. Install bootcamp (I used beta 1.3) and burn the drivers CD Install Vista, I did mine to a [...]
Archive | June, 2007
Upton floods (again)
Who’d have thought it, lots of heavy rain and then the next few days the River bursts its banks, amazing. Yes for the third time this year it’s flood time here in not-so-sunny Upton. Thankfully there are some excellent flood defences in place so the town is still usable (unlike the main road to Malvern) [...]
Uptonbury 2007
Wow, what a superb weekend. The bash at ours loosely based around the Upton Jazz festival was a cracking success with the red wine flowing, the parents getting a rest, the meat burning production line not missing a beat and everyone getting along famously.
Ozficici Salsa
For a while now I’ve been seeking the Holy Grail in salsas with my efforts to-date not really cutting it in both texture and subtlety stakes (though tasty enough and certainly spicy). So during this weekends Uptonbury I asked my mate Kurt Ozficici who’s a great cook for his recipe; he didn’t disappoint.
Why is this funny?
Dramatic Chipmunk Best five second video on the internet http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1764124 I dunno, but it makes me laugh.
Facebook gifts, what’s that all about then?
If you use Facebook then you’ve probably seen that it’s possible to send other people ‘gifts’. As far as I can tell if I want to do this then I get to PAY around $1 to send a PICTURE of some tat and a message to someone else. Eh? I can see how it’s a [...]
Le Mans 07
I just got back from my third visit to the Le Mans 24 hour race and it was a good one. For the previous 2 years we had circa 30 degree temperatures with no cloud cover and it really got unbearable so just to strike a balance this year we had rain, a lot of [...]
Upton Jazz Festival: mashup at ours
The Upton Jazz Festival is this coming weekend and we’ve thrown open our house for people to stay over, either in the house or camping in the garden. If the weather holds out then it should be good family fun and a weekend long BBQ. If I already know you and you’re going to be [...]
Google Developer Day 2007 (London)
On Thursday I attended the Google Developer day 2007 event in London and overall I’d say it was worth the day out of the office.My headline excuse for going was that I’m working on a project that requires some Google Maps integration and as there was a 1.5 hours hands on workshop on it I [...]
Superb Javascript lectures
As someone doing more and more frontend development using javascript I’m trying to shore up my knowledge a bit. For example some of the shortcut syntax I wasn’t sure about and I knew I could do with more backgound on how the language deals with objects. With this is mind I’m half way through Douglas [...]