James Lloyd

Darren's is on a personal boycott of all DRM products, a boycott I heartily agree with. If you dont know what DRM is Darren explains better than I can be bothered here . Personally the thought that you can buy some music or a video but then only be able to listen or watch that on a device some fat cat, (I wouldn't normally use the phrase fat cat, but I saw the episode of that Simpsons recently where their all being thrifty, tins of Krill etc you know the one), erm fat cats yes, some fat cats has decided is fit for you to watch/listen to it on

So I have been living with my Macbook pro for about a week now. I'm still very impressed, I have discovered MAMP a MySQL Apache and PHP, which is making my random web developing very easy. I can see why designer types use macs. The the way the interface is layed out, so the would be windows file menu is always at the top simply makes sense, (though perhaps not immediately).

I recently took delivery of a spangly new macbook pro. I needed this as I wanted to use it for web development and some surfing etc. I am and have been using Windows for about 13 years, quite a long time, but not huge compared to others in my industry. Professionally in IT I have a different view point to most of my counterparts,

Im about to cancel my order for a PS3 which I pre-ordered from play some 6 months ago, but before I do anyone want to take my place in the queue? Our impending house purchase means I cant justify an Xbox 360 a PSP and a PS3. Damn these wives with their reason and logic.

Finally my macbook has arrived. So now I can do rinky stuff like publish entries like this one from a widget, widgets like Vista Gadgets but the spelling is subtly different! I can talk now, have new toy to play with!

The more observant of you (and the more geeky) will have noticed that several things have changed on this site. I have moved it off the old Windows hosting I was using in the states to, a spangly Linux based on also in the states. Why have you done this ? (no one cries as why would they its not very interesting to anyone but me, probably why are you posting about it is a more pertinent question)