Windows XP on Intel Mac – the official way

With full drivers, including ATI, and dynamic non-destructive partitioning.

This is the best thing Apple have done for a long, long time and it's going to hopefully be huge. Now people can use OS X for normal work, and dual-boot into Windows whenever they need to run Windows-only engineering software, AutoCAD or Half-Life 2. I don't own a Mac, but I've always liked OS X and their laptops and now they're definitely on the purchase agenda.

Cameron says something right again

Whatever you think about David Cameron, and I wouldn't vote for him, he is very good at laying into people who deserve it.

The UKIP, of course, still condemn themselves through their weblinks as being a bunch of "good ol' days" types – naive at best, sinister at worst. They link to the British Weights and Measures Association, a bunch of "metric martyr" cranks who do things like vandalise metric road signs, refuse to buy dual-unit scales and so on (despite metrication, in fact, predating Britain joining the EU). They link to various very right-wing organisations. There's the occasional codeword.

UKIP have a long, long history of various nasty people in their party; their standard anti-European xenophobia being just one element of it. A quick Google for "UKIP racist" gives us articles from the BNP's newspaper on the first page complaining about them getting into the market, and a Wikipedia article that links to a good column by Johann Hari.

Googling for "UKIP homophobia", on the other hand, gets you a Sunday Herald article about them allying with the League of Polish Families, who are a bunch of ultra-Catholic anti-Semitic homophobic tossers (especially their truly scary youth wing.) This, incredibly, went ahead. Sadly, Richard Corbett MEP's extensive UKIP-racism/homophobia PDF dossier is no longer available, but it might still be out there somewhere.

Cameron is, surprisingly enough, on the money. Hope he sticks to it.

Iron Sudoku: sudoku Web 2.0 style

This is a rather brilliant idea: Iron Sudoku, which is basically a Web 2.0 version of one of the innumerable sudoku websites out there. As you beat each puzzle, you gain points on your account; there is collaborative chatting and a friends system. The grid itself is Javascript, and works *very* well in Firefox. If you like sudoku, I'd highly recommend it.

As for myself, if the owner can make a kakuro version I'd *definitely* be sold…

The problem with the WordPress theme changer

…is that it changes live rather than giving you a preview. Grr. I’ve just gone through eight themes and find out big disadvantages in each of them…

In any case, I’ve settled on andreas09 for now: it at least uses up your entire browser window, as opposed to the last one I was using (I don’t mind a little whitespace, but I have a 1280×1024 screen and too much whitespace is seriously irritating.) This one should hopefully be a bit more permanent.