The Geeky Brit

So my wonderful employer is sending me home to attend the 2007 IFSEC Security show in Birmingham, England.
It is always fun to get on the road when you tend to stay tied to a desk night and day, as I tend to…

So the British Prime Minister has announced he will stand down on June 27th. No real surprise there, this has been on the cars for a long time. It is widely expected that Mr Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequor (Sec Treas equivalent), will replace him in the leadership role.

Mr Brown will not even have to move homes, as he already lives in 10 Downing Street, as Mr Blair elected to move his family into the more capacious 11 Downing Street (the traditional Chancellor’s home) when he was elected in 1997.

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Kind of interesting the Tony Blair chose youtube.com to congratulate the new President elect…

…oh and in French too.

So on my lovely MacBook Pro, I occasionally have to run some windows programs.

To do this I do not use the much talked about Apple BootCamp, I use a very good program called Parallels.  This provides me with the ability to run a windows program whilst I am in OSX.

Recently I ran out of disk space and was forced to resize the Virtual HDD that the Windows sits on.  Luckily Parallels ships with a utility to do this call “Paralells Image Tool”.  So I dutifully ran it, added an extra 8 gig to the image size, and then “rebooted” my virtual machine. Read the rest of this entry »