Is this where the Wii Came from?

Xavix looks mighty familiar to me

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Russian street climbing

This is pretty darn cool, it makes me think that i should get up off my arse and actually get out there and start training and doing some form of exercise

I love anything that takes the piss out of chavs

Google Mac

Google Mac : Ok, this is really, really cool if you are a mac user. Google seems to have another back end on thier search engine devoted to apple mac searching.

So instead of returning results for programmes related to windows, it will only return info relevent to macs when you are searching for technical info.

Just bought a mac? This is your new homepage.

Im a Windows admin who likes Mac's - WTF?

Now this is a very very odd feeling, not because of the hangover from the night before, not because of the fact that the air con is fully on and yet im somehow still roasting hot in my office.

No, this is an odd feeling as this is my first blog post with using my new computer, my new computer that is very white and still only has one mouse button on the trackpad. Yep, im using a mac.

This was kind of an impulse buy at the weekend as i needed to get a mew MP3 player (my last 3rd gen ipod packed up) so I thought to myself, ipod nano. I don't really have much time anymore to listen to music as I now drive everywhere and have a 4 wheel ipod with the ammount of CD's in the car. But i still needed somthing for those odd occasions where i fancy some music and there is nothing around to play it on. So, into the apple store with intentions of buying a nano, and out with a nano and macbook....Damn...how did that happen? Pesky apple with thier good looking computers.

Anyway, I actually kinda like this thing, i've never used a mac before apart from randomly jabbing at them in the apple store and PC world when i have been passing by. Yet ive now been using this as my primary system for 5 days now and I have to say that OS X really is far ahead of the pack in terms of ease of use for the end consumer. As a windows network admin by trade i should like things to be a bit more complicated yet OS X seems to just get the job done without moaning every 5 mins like windows does. For a day to day computer for surfing the web, checking e-mails, blogging ect.. ect.. basicly anything apart from games and .NET apps this is a perfect computer. I'm even posting this via the use of somthing called a wiget, all i need to do is hit f12 and a bunch of little programmes like this blogging tool, a clock, little post it note things, RSS feed reader, all just pop up out of nowhere and then if i hit the same key again they go away. But more to the point, it just happens, the hard drive dosnt click, it dosnt take a couple of seconds to do it, it just does it with no complaining from the hardware or the OS.

As much as i rave on about this being a really easy OS to use (and i could rave on about my new macbook for a couple more pages) you can still geek out, this is UNIX underneath the hood remember, and more to the point you have access to it via the terminal and after figuring out how to enable the root user you are away to bash away at a shell as much as you like (excuse the pun)

I have 2 weeks to return this bit of kit if i want to, but it is becoming more and more likey that I am going to be keeping it and e-baying off my old laptop to keep me afloat this month (£750 is a heafty dent in most peoples wallets)

newho, we shall see.......