These days I use VirtualBox almost exclusively as the way I run Windows stuff on my Mac computers. MacWorld have posted a podcast video thingy (probably best to call them *casts) which sort of reviews it but also demos how it’s just as good as VMware Fusion but with a better price tag - it’s free.

Its worth checking out.

So, it appears that during the transportation of my laptop + other bits and bobs to CLUK21, I broke the spacebar on my Apple Aluminum USB Keyboard. It was actually quite an annoying breakage - If I tapped my thumb on the far right of the space bar, it wouldn’t work!

You might be thinking, why is that so bad? Well, try typing ‘cd ..’ in a Terminal as a touch typist and see where your thumb lands. I was constantly writing ‘cd..’ because of this!

Well, long story short I hobbled over to the Apple Store and got myself the little wireless keyboard that they do that is sans numeric keypad.

Not missing it - at all. Having even more desk space back is also nice! Considering it all works over Bluetooth, its very responsive. So I can’t really complain at all. All good.

Appears that calibrating the battery was not enough. Went into the Apple Store, saw an "Apple Genius" and he instantly replaced it. No questions asked. A "new revision" apparently.

Let’s hope this fixes it!