Let’s get this out of the way. The Hangover Part II really is quite a good movie. Rotten Tomatoes is giving it a bit of hard time at 35%. Bad Teacher is sitting at a 44% rating, and that isn’t anywhere close to being as good.

After 5 years of use, it was finally time to retire my ageing Core Duo MacBook and upgrade the home office setup.

I’m going to be bold and predict that within three years time Apple will have released a multitouch desktop computer running a much evolved form of the iPhone OS. Why? Well because it’s the next logical thing. Computers have remained fundamentally unchanged for the last 30 years and no one apart from Apple seems to have any interest in moving things along.

I’ve had most of these pictures ready to go for a while now but I decided to spend a bit of time putting a couple of panoramas together. Hopefully the results are worth it.