Weekend included : Nice drinkies with T and a buffet chinese, plus wondering if a washing machine would fall through the dripping ceiling of one of the pubs we went in..

Bike ride on Sunday

Making serious inroads into The Buddha of Suburbia

Plus, a fair degree of computer fiddling. This was because I succumbed to a toy - a 3D monitor.

To cut a moderately long story short - when it works it's exceedingly good. Unfortunately this requires wearing special glasses (fairly usual), getting your head at the right angle and not moving your eyes up and down (horizontally is ok, because this monitor uses horizontally interleaved polarisation).

Watching a fish swim around a coral reef is gobsmackingly good, various computer games and fiddling to get them work are decidedly more variable, 3D pictures so far seem distinctly sub par. The idea some people have that you could have more than one person simultaneously watching it are hopeful to say the least. As a 2D monitor it is also distinctly average and suffers a little from having two panels one behind the other.

There's also the driver issues. Nvidia's Stereo3D drivers only work with 8xxx series cards and above (still on a 7600GT here), except on XP where you can get 7 series cards working with old drivers - this led to a huge hassle with installing XP - eventually worked with a slipstreamed SP2 install disk created using nlite. Didn't work the usual way.

There's also the IZ3D drivers (they also make their own 3D monitors) and Tridef drivers which enable hardware to work with ATI cards too. Time will tell which is the best driver.

It shows promise, but currently doesn't seem to be plug and play.