Goodness me! A post!

Yes, I've been away from the blog for a little bit (okay, ages). The job change has drained a lot more of my time than I thought it would. I'm rapidly approaching the go-live event horizon of the current project and, to put it bluntly, I'm being flogged like a red-headed stepchild. (Appologies to red-headed stepchildren who may be reading this...). Hopefully, I can get back into a bit of a rhythm of a couple of posts a day or so. We'll see.

MacBook Pro

A recent strange occurrence... occured. One of the other developers here came back from a break one day to discover his laptop had developed a taste for coffee. This, naturally, meant a trip to the local hardware shop to purchase a new one. Somewhere along the lines, he got confused and came back with a tricked up MacBook Pro. (note: we are a windows shop...)

Over the last couple of days, one of the other guys has been setting it up for him. The trick here is a piece of software called Parallels. This allows you to run XP in a VM style environment. It actually runs surprisingly well. A lot better than a comparible installation running under VirtualPC or VMWare. I think there may be some legs in this. And Mac OS-X is soooo sexy. Stay tuned for more updates on the MacBook.