I know it’s been a while since I’ve written a good post. I don’t know if this is going to be one, but at least it will be longer than two sentences and a link. I do apologize for the drought of posts lately but work has been intense and now that we have our big project time and I have some room to breath the post will be more plentiful.

It's been an interesting day, week, whatever it has been. I stayed home today because I was under the weather.  Speaking of the weather it's been raining since yesterday evening almost not stop. Which leads into the weather related story of the day.  I got a call about noon from my brother K, to let me know that brother J had been in a multi-car accident. He's banged up, bruised sore and lacerated however he is wholly intact which is great. His poor truck that has moved me five times and countless others is not terribly intact. Anyhow apparently in a typical Californian driver type move, someone doing 80 in the fast lane in the poor rain and the rest writes itself. Back to the truck, the motor mounts broke, causing the transmission mounts to break and it dropped the drive-shaft. So in layman terms it’s broke. However I am just glad my Brother is okay!

In rain related news, as some of you may already know I am shooting my first wedding for a friend from the train this weekend. I am completely nervous and of course it looks like there is a chance that it is going to rain. Well it is suppose to be an outdoor wedding at 5pm, so of course I am worried about the light, however if it rains, I’ll have to take all of the formals inside. Which isn’t a bad thing it is just different! Like I said I’ve been nervous as I usually don’t photograph people and photographing a wedding is an art itself. So I’ve been reading books and some good forums. I’ve been practicing a lot lately and man is my family sick of seeing the flash go over behind them. In fact that Little Boy has taken to hiding when he sees me with the camera in my hand. I’ve been also checking out some sites that help keep some of the cost down. Photography can be a very expensive proposition, well being of modest means I like trying to make some of the tools myself. So I’ve been reading DIYPhotography.net to get ideas of how to build some of the lighting rigs I want but can’t afford to buy.

In other news, My Beautiful Wife and I have just passed a milestone. We celebrated our five year Wedding Anniversary last month. We took some time just for us, took a weekend went to the mountains to a cute little town to celebrate us. In all truthfulness it is just amazingly easy to be married to her. She is my best friend and I can always be myself with her. Five years has gone by so fast, I so look forward to the next five years.

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.