London - Hot, Sunny, Humid!

Who woulda thunk it! Kath and I have been in the UK for over a week now, and it has been hot and humid nearly every day! Some night time rain, but 28+ every day. AND the Brits are making us look silly on the cricket field (maybe that has something to do with global warming?)

Ironically, one of my first ever weblog posts (on my long gone first blog - I can't even find it on the wayback machine because I can't quite remember it's url...) was titled London, 6am, cold, raining!

Roaming on wireless over here, I have discovered how terrible IMAP (and OSX Mail.app in particular) is over high latency connections (may mail server is in Sydney).

High latency connections also make you do more than one thing at once (while you're waiting for a conneciton to open etc.) and that makes me realise how much I depend on virtual desktops X-Windows style. OSX-sexiness aside, boring old virtual desktops are my favourite - I get virtual desktop functionality in OSX from Desktop Manager, and I constantly wonder how I lived without it. Fortunately it is now (according to it's website) Tiger compatible, so all my pre-requisites are now met to allow me to upgrade. Not while I'm travelling though - I don't like to live quite that riskily! (is that a word?)