Our Dell XPS420 christened...and F1

Hi anyone,

Been a busy few weeks for us. Two weeks ago, our new Dell XPS420 arrived. I must say, I'm impressed with the Dell experience - much easier than building my own. The PC arrived 7 days after order, everything nicely packed up and in it's place. Installation was a breeze (well it should be hey :)) and it all fired up 1st go. The order, 100% correct!

I've since spent my nights since transferring data, setting up Flight Sim X (which runs very nicely on this beast) and coming to grips with Vista. Obviously, the whole UAC thing in Vista is a little painful, but reading up on it you can see it has it's purpose. The other prob I encountered was the Windows Easy Transfer thing - it don't work - so ended up mapping folders and transferring over the local network. Don't waste your time troubleshooting, no useful logs/errors - trust me.

Luca and Marco's christening was Sunday week ago, have uploaded some pics so check out the Album if interested. Another two Catholics in the world hey!

Uploaded this video of Aimee on a skateboard with her cousin Ryan taken at the start of March on our now broken :( Canon IXUS 75 , just a test really, it was an 88MB upload, not sure how big now as blogger did some post processing on it Don't play it if you don't have the bandwidth.

Watched the Melbourne F1 over the w/e. Only 7 cars of 22 finished. Hmmm. Plenty of carbon Fibre flying. Hopefully race 1 is not an indication of how the season will go for Webber. Good to see the Honda's back to midfield pace. Looks like the removal of driver aids like traction control and engine braking is a good move, might be interesting to watch this year to see how things pan out. As they say ... somewhere..."bring it on..."

Melbourne F1 Grand Prix

I had a great w/e (15-18/Mar) in Melbourne at the GP. Flew down with Jetstar, actually enjoyed the experience - no delays for a change :) Flying to Avalon proved to be hassle free and far less crowded than Tullermarine.

The GP was well organised as usual - I've been a few times before - this year there were no v8 supercars, so it seemed to be missing something. On the flipside, the 2 x 90min practice sessions on the Friday meant more airtime for the F1 cars. Seating was good, directly opposite pit lane exit and a superscreen - handy to watch the action.

Thanks to my friends Wendy & Martin who hosted my stay....

Australian International Airshow is on this week, so plenty of plane action at Avalon when I was leaving on Sunday evening. Heres a C17A and some F16/18's taken from the departure lounge.