The Woos of August.

I can't believe its been a number of months since I last had the opportunity to blog. I did have one underway but machine reset before I could post - think that was back in June sometime. Even my twitter activity gone down lots... Mainly due to the woo's or work though as been over busy. Same at home with a 21 months old.

Anyhow not much has happened really, as said been very busy. One change is that my MacBook bit the dust so now have a 2009 model 20" iMac. Quite nice, obviously 5" bigger screen. OK not portable but can leave that to the Dell laptop we have - combined with browser technology in my phone.

Not managed to do any personal development either which is a shame. Think I may have to download the latest iPhone development kit and give that another try.. did make a start on some stuff but never finished. Managed to get my Macbook drive out of system before sold for parts on ebay and bought a £5 external case to put it in. So that's sweet - means all that on there I can access...

But talking computers for a bit. I do think the iMac is sweet. Got my mini wireless keyboard, wireless mighty mouse, wireless net connection so only lead is that to the power. And they look sexy too. Think that's why my daughter is addicted to watching her night garden on there - get her youtube fix. Think I may have to use my ripit to put the dvd's on the hard drive instead of keep loading in the DVD's she has.. Save me the work :) of swapping disks .

One thing I am looking forward to, on a personal level, is that in 4 weeks I go on holiday. We're flying out to Majorca for a week with some friends coming along too. Be nice to get away from the UK as last year we didn't. Also doing a stay at hotel near Gatwick as early early flight (check in by 4am there) which is a change. Normally rushing down there at 3am in the morning.

Anyhow, lets get back to some techie stuff for a change. One thing I have changed in the past 4 or so months is I sold my GTX260 (loved that card) as I bought a ATI5770. Not quite a powerful I think that the 260 - but its DX11 so wanted to see what that was like. Not sure its much more for BFBC2 that playing but have seen some effects I believe that were not in there before. Also I can't remember if I had bought my Mamba mouse before last blog or after?

Means only upgrades I am considering in the coming months is a second graphics card (either 5750 or 5770 to crossfire) and possibly a bigger case. Would prefer another 5770 but all down to the cash situation. All really playing at moment is BC2 so no rush.. Do have a backlog of games I need to play though.

So to make sure its techie here is breakdown of systems in house (current used systems and not any of old ones like Amiga, P133 notebook, etc)..

Dell i3 notebook. Think its 2.4ghz?

iMac 20" 2.66Ghz C2D

My baby now : i7 920 running 3Ghz (not overclocked much) with H20 cooler. 6Ghz ripjaw memory, XFX 5770, X-Fi fatal1ty, 1TB WD Black, usual dvd all in Antec 900 with a 700w PSU. Razer Tarantula keyboard with Mamba mouse and a HP 2475W monitor.

Both PC's running Windows7 with desktop also having ubuntu on it. iMac running Snow Leopard.

That's it, a snapshot in time of my current system setup. Think, years to come people can see what systems we were using hehe. That is also a unique or Youtube. I am not sure how long they retain video and accounts if not used but in theory people who do videos and die will be immortal on youtube - some are being so now.. The footprint that we leave now certainly is much bigger now that it was before.

Anyhow, think its time to stop the babble and go to a meeting.