50 Years of Space Exploration

50 Years of Space Exploration
Originally uploaded by Adam Crowe

Monty Python: Almost the truth

In celebration of their 40th anniversary, Monty Python has just released “Monty Python: Almost the Truth – The Lawyer’s Cut”, a 3 DVD documentary chronicling the history of Monty Python, including new interviews with the cast.

Wanna ride the Google Wave?

2009 season is over (for me)

What seems to be the last school for me this year is over and boy was it fun.

I haven't been on the track for several months, so I wasn't really sure how I'd do. Luckily though, the moment I sat on the R6's comfy seat it all came back to me.

The weather was ideal for a day on the track as well, being cloudy and just cool enough.

As the English chaps would say, "jolly good fun!". :-)

photo courtesy of Stelios Efremopoulos (many thanks!)

First day at Boot Camp

I finally gave in...

After several months without any need or use for it, I finally decided to give Apple's Boot Camp a try. The reason was pretty simple: Games :-)

Yeap, as I said, I finally gave in. I wanted to play a game or two on my MacBook Pro, please forgive me...

The procedure lasted about an hour for the partitioning and installation of a copy of Windows 7. That part was fairly easy and straightforward, just start the BootCamp Assistant for MacOS X's Utilities and follow the instructions.

Windows 7 x64 installed normally, as it did on my normal PC. After that, you have to install Apple's Boot Camp drivers in order to have a fully functional multi-touch trackpad, sound support and all the other Mac's hardware working as it should. You have to use Mac OS X's DVD for that, as for some silly reason the drivers are not available anywhere else online (argh!).

The good news is that with Snow Leopard it's now possible to read Mac HFS volumes under Windows, so you can easily exchange files to and from your other partition. Pretty handy sometimes...

Following that, I installed a few basic tools I always use (like 7-zip, Directory Opus, Firefox, etc.) and the Steam client (yes, I buy most of my games from Steam). A few minutes later, I was ready to download and play "The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition"!

By the way, if you've never seen it before or if you know and like the original Monkey Island, I urge you to check out the Special Edition yourself. It's only 5 Euros on Steam right now...

Jesus Hates Zombies

Jesus Hates Zombies
Originally uploaded by Ben Templesmith

If video games were realistic...

We've all played games now and then. Some of them claimed to be more realistic than others, but are they really?

If you want to see more, have a look at the article on Cracked.com