Are you kidding me Steve

I've got into using Macs over the last couple of years. I'm sat on my sofa using my Macbook whilst upstairs the Mac Mini is chugging away keeping track of my email and being available for when I need to sit at a desk.

I'm not a zealot on the things, but I have convinced at least one or two other people to use them mainly on the idea that they just work, which they do. Spending most of the day at work trying to get computers to do what we need them to do means I'm less keen to do the same at home when all I want to do is play a few games, read blogs and check out Facebook.

Recently I've noticed that the laptop isn't performing as well as the desktop, and figured it's down to having slightly less memory into the laptop. Ok, not a problem, perfectly possible to upgrade the parts so I toddle off to Apple store to see what the cost is.

Imagine my shock when I spot they're looking to charge £120 for the upgrade. Seemed a bit pricey so I checked out some other sites who offered the same kit for about a quarter of the price. Now I'm not sure how they can justify the mark up on it but needless to say I won't be buying it from them at that price.

It's the end of the world as we know it?

So it's been all over the news today, that CERN has fired up it's Large Hadron Collider and send a stream of particles all the way round. While this isn't the dangerous part, once they get two streams going in the opposite direction all sorts of interesting things might happen. Anti-matter, black holes, end of the world type stuff (or so the hype might have us believe).

So if you're at all concerned may I suggest the following website
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
which help waylay some concerns.

Everyone sing along now

So this came out a while back and yet again Joss Whedon delivered something brilliant and funny that has become a hit with the fans (including myself). Hopefully the download version will be available through iTunes over here soon but in the mean times the soundtrack has been made available and has pride of place on my iPod. I'm currently averaging one listen through a day and it still isn't losing the appeal.

If you missed it the first time, keep an eye out and try and catch it as soon as you can.

Well everyone else has done it...

Wait, what is this place, seems vaguely familiar, oh yeah a blog.

The bank holiday weekend has been and gone, and as with previous years I spent it stewarding at Greenbelt in Cheltenham. Working on the Support Team gives plenty of opportunities for doing many and varied things around the festival, from the fairly mundane of walking around a campsite or the village, to driving a golf buggy full of stewards or escorting people away from the beer tent.

This year did seem a lot quieter than previous years, but this wasn't necessarily a bad thing, wandering around there was plenty of time to chat with the greenbelters who were there for the festival (and get the occasional cup of tea, slice of cake) or the other stewarding teams who were looking after the venues or site.

There were some key highlights though, Squeak getting caught twice by Zippie and Merlin doing something unusual in the first hour of our last shift, encouraging Cola (one of the new members) to lick a sweet before giving it to Handbag (yes we all have weird names) and coming off the last shift and sitting around having a relaxed drink and chat.

Can't say I saw a huge amount of the festival but when you're sleeping till midday and then working till 3am there's only so much you can do whilst trying not to overdose on caffiene or sugar.

Regardless of what happened I'll be applying for next year, and wondering what random things we'll be getting involved with then.