Archive for August, 2006

Movie of the Week: Cars

Thursday, 10th of August 2006

My wife and I went to the pictures yesterday. We still like doing that a lot despite having a DVD player and a lot of the other stuff making up a home cinema. The atmosphere is just different. This week we watched Cars. My wife wasn’t so sure about it but I liked the trailers. [...]

Flying after 8/10

Thursday, 10th of August 2006

This morning the news on Star 107 radio were all about the foiled terrorist attack on planes leaving the UK. In the evening all the airports are still in a state of total chaos. My wife and I are very fortunate that our flight to Germany is scheduled for next friday and not for tomorrow. [...]

Favourite Toy of the Week: Mac Pro

Tuesday, 8th of August 2006

Apple finally released the Intel CPU based desktop Mac yesterday: The Mac Pro Just like I guessed back in January it took Apple a few more month to replace the old G5 based Power Mac desktops for two reasons: The Core Duo is an astoundingly fast CPU. But a system powered by this CPU cannot [...]