so it’s been years, literally, not just in a tech sense, since the last time I wrote a blog post. I have been meaning to start this back up for a little while now that I have a real job and am out of school. But you know how things always seem to get in the way. I finally found a nice, new, clean domain name….heehee. I love my new domain. 
So, life.
Recently have split with my girlfriend of a few months. Started my third job out of college in the span of 14 months. Have started doing some web projects for other people, a little money on the side never hurt. Am getting stoked about the new Palm Pre. Am living in Decatur, GA, in a 3/1.5 house by myself, waiting for my fantastic sister-in-law to find someone to rent the house so I can move out.
Current loves:
my car: 2006 VW Golf GLS
my job: web developer
hometown: atlanta
Current non-loves:
my living situation: no cool roommate(s)
computing power: need a new desktop bbbaaaadddd
friends: they live too far away
So today I bought my first new computer in ~4 years. A Dell Mini 9. I saw on engadget that Dell was having a $199 sale on them and that hit my impulse buy price. I added a integrated webcam and messenger bag for it and off my order went. It sucks that the estimated ship date is St. Paddy’s day, but oh well, at least I got a great deal on my lappie. In a few months I plan on completely overhauling my desktop computer. It’s currently running something like single core 2.4 GHz, 512MB RAM, 32MB Video Card, all from ~4 years ago. I plan upping the specs to Core i7 920 (2.66GHz quad core), 4-6GB RAM, 512MB Video card. This should definitely improve my computing experience at home. I’m also planning on installing the windows 7 beta. I had installed it on my workhorse laptop, but with it being 4 years old, I don’t think 7 really agreed with it cause it started crashing more than it was running. But anyway, onwards and upwards!
I am really looking forward to the new Palm Pre. Before it was announced, I felt that Palm was starting it’s death rattle. They hadn’t put anything exciting out in a few years and was having internal struggles which is indicative of a dying company. But Palm surprised the entire tech community at CES 2009 when they introduced the Pre and webOS. No one saw this coming, there weren’t any leaks or buzz surrounding Palm before their keynote. After the keynote, Palm was all anybody could talk about. As soon as I heard that there was going to be a development camp in Atlanta, I signed up for it and voluteered. I figured it was time to get into the tech community in Atlanta and hopefully meet some new people down here. There is not a date set for preDevCamp yet, but I’m hearing that it will be about a week after the Pre actually launches.
Last night I watched the hour long webcast that Palm’s Software CTO Mitch Allen put on. He only provided general information about the Pre and webOS, but it was encouraging to see how simple it will be to create an app on the Pre. I need to start brushing up/learning javascript now. :-)
So I’m about out of info for this first post in a while. Be back more often from now on.
Till Next Time