I've tried Raspbmc and ran into all kinds of weird problems. As a result I installed Raspbian, added XBMC myself and have been happy ever since.
I tried Raspbmc but the buggy Airplay support forced me to switch to Xbian. Haven't bumped into a problem since.
Uh, no. Sam is in London, England. Well, somewhere in the UK anyway.
My mistake. I had been poking around the raspbmc site and saw that he was at King's College - theres also a Kings College in London Canada and I jumped to conclusions.
Looking up his blog made that pretty apparent .co.uk :P