Busy, busy; and new toys

Well, it’s been a busy several months. Been working on pulling a PHP application baseline together from my various code bases, getting back on ReThink, writing stuff for Turos (was: Arcturos, see previous post), etc.

I will eventually find time to write stuff about my Mac environment, but, for now, I’ll just say that I love loving my computer again. It’s been such a long time. Never thought I’d have to thank Steve Jobs for giving me back my Amiga.

If you have a Mac, I recommend checking out Circus Ponies Notebook, which is my favourite thinking tool. It won’t be for everyone, but it is exactly what I want. And Quicksilver just rocks for getting things done quickly. The documentation is a little lacking, but A Better OS X In Just 10 Minutes and From A Better OS X To Even More are a great help.

With the advent of the Intel Mac, I have finally decided to replace my poor old Pentium III machine with a MacMini. Something super fabuloso fantastic, I mentioned hoping for VMWare for the Mac to a friend this afternoon, and he pointed me to Parallels Workstation, which is already available! I was so excited, I preordered a copy. BootCamp from Apple would have required that I upgrade to Windows XP, something I am loath to do. So, YAY!