mac attack

in computer news i've finally made the switch over to using a mac, at least for work anyway. i'm running a program called parallels which lets me use both the mac operating system (on the laptop on the right) and windows xp (on the screen on the left) at the same time. it took me a while to get used to the mac but now that i've been using it for a while i like it a lot. the downside is there are a number of programs, like outlook, which are better in their xp version so it looks like i'll be using parallels a lot.

macs are famous for their reliability, being far more stable than your typical windows pc. unfortunately, as you can see by the above picture, i've had a few crashes lately. of course i have to give full disclosure and say that all of the crashes happened while using windows xp inside parallels so it's not entire apple's fault.

and fitting with the theme of buggy microsoft product, my xbox 360 recently died after a strenuous period of being rarely used. here it is showing the infamous three 'red rings of death' signifying terminal hardware failure.