This was a great article on how to become a Programming Rock Star. My favorite is tip number 11, eat well, exersice, and don't drink too much coffee. I know that this is the first post in a while and I promise that the next one will be better.

How many hours do you have to spend playing Grand Turismo 4 to be able to drive like that?

Today is Monday again, I am sure that I didn't have to tell most of you that, but there it is. I walked it to work this morning and it's so quiet it's deafening. Just the hum of computer fans and air conditioning. My Friend and Co-Worker "The Pine" has moved on and is now working much closer to home for more money (Isn't that what we all want). Friday was his last day. Now it is monday and it is too quiet. The routine of coming in, talking about the weekend and show each other photos of the kids before we start the work week will now have to be a virtual one. "The Pine" has been a good friend and co-worker and I will miss getting to hangout with him.

I’ve noticed a trend here lately, Have you noticed how may people are wearing bluetooth headsets. The other day my wife and I were at Disneyland and I must of seen ten guys wearing the headsets. It’s like it’s become the male version of jewelry. I just don’t get it. If you are at Disneyland with your kids, why are you wearing a headset? What phone call can be more important them spending time with our family?

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not antitechnology by any stretch of the imagination. I just follow a thought that a friend told me once. “Technology is like your underware. not the first thing you want people to see when they meet you.”

So I just got out of the Friday morning project update meeting and found out that we are going to do a code freeze at the end of the month. While a code freeze is welcomed, it also mean I have a lot of code to write test and test some more before the end of Tuesday. So if you don’t hear from me in the next couple of days you know why.

Love Peace and Taco Grease

Now playing: Propellerheads - Take California

Update, If you are wondering what the above means, I've turned on music detection for my blog. So it will display the artist and song I am listening to at the time the post is written.

So I got my PearPC Mac surfing the internet. I had to figure out how to get the PearPC Mac to see the internet/Internal Network, so I turned to my good friend google and found "Networking with PearPC" I followed the directions and bam, on the internet.

The first real step to getting PPC Mac on the information superhighway was to install a virtual network adapter. I have one set up for Virtual PC, which is where I run a local version if windows 2003 Server for development reasons. However PPC didn't see that virtual adapter, so I used the mentioned in the article, openvpn. After tweaking some configurations, I could browse the internet. The one thing to note, is you can only multihome your actually network adapter to one virtual adapter at a time. So I have to choose which connection I am going to use before I start up either my Virtual Mac, or Virtual Windows 2003 Server.

What do you get when you combine Apples and Oranges, apparently it's a Pear as in PearPC. PearPC is an open source project that lets you run Mac OS X inside Windows XP. Yes, I am on an Apple Kick lately. I have a good excuse this time, no really, I do. So the big project at work has to be cross-browser and cross-platform compatible. So that means I have to test on just about everything. I even have a webTV emulator on my development machine. I have the only Mac in the entire company on my, and my mate Ed's desk (Our desks are connected). However, I  don't always develop at work.  I've been doing alot of template coding on the train and in the evenings at home. Well I got a huge piece of the templates finished and tested it on Firefox, IE, Camino, Opera and Safari. It looked perfect in all of them on both the PC and the Mac, with Safari being the exception. Well It's a little hard to code for Safari on the train ride home, when I'm on a PC. So after doing a little googling this afternoon I rediscovered PearPC and had to try it. So Far so good. While it isn't blazingly fast, I just need it for the safari browser. I installed it and configured it, which was pretty straight forward. Created some ISO images from my legal copy of Mac OS X, and low and behold, I have Mac OS X running in the middle of my Windows XP machine. My next mission, get the networking figured out. I've found a good resource for that, so I shall tackle that one tomorrow. I'll let you know how it goes.