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Friday, Oct 12. 2007  –  Category: Musings

…. cue sounds of 4 Non Blondes

It’s been a hectic couple of weeks since I left Sun. I’ve spent 2 weeks at Songbird now, and am starting to feel like less of the retarded-idiot-who-knows-nothing now. It’s been a challenge switching between two completely different jobs at two completely different companies. But damn if the commute to SF isn’t a helluva lot nicer (and a lot more fun…. riding a skateboard is orders of magnitude better than sitting idling spitting out noxious fumes on 880). Seriously, I don’t drive my car on weekdays anymore…. and that is just lovely.

I’ve been using a MacBook the past couple of weeks and I’m starting to adjust, but I still miss my Solaris environment. This is the first time I’ve used a Mac since busting out on Oregon Trail (”Your party has died of starvation”) in the third grade, so it’s been a while.

WE’S HATES THESE @)#(@)(#*%)@# KEYBINDINGS, YES WE’S DO

Seriously… hate ‘em. Just hate ‘em. The lack of virtual desktops and ZFS is a bummer too. Apparently the next release of MacOS fixes those though (though what’s up with ZFS read-only??), so I await that patiently.

Job wise, it’s been different. We’re pushing for a new developer release soon with a whole new accompanying developer portal. We’re really trying to push for developer adoption with the extensions and web page APIs we’ve been working on. I’ve been goofing off learning the webpage APIs (that brings up an interesting discussion I had with my boss: is it “webpage” or “web page”? wikipedia claims both are valid). It’s pretty awesome stuff - the interaction between the media library and the web is really starting to come together. More importantly, it’s not just an iTunes clone - the level of interaction available is a lot more two-way and dynamic than what you can do with iTunes.

Plus: it’s f-ing open. yeah, suck on that - closed proprietary DRM’d up-the-wazoo iTunes.

So that’s what’s new in the world of work.

Wendy and I are in Hawaii this week for her annual OMFS meeting, so I’ve been working in the hotel room trying not to stare out the window at the ocean and surfers. Fun, neh.

We’re going parasailing this afternoon and snorkeling tomorrow - so I’m looking forward to that. More importantly, we’re going to Nobu for dinner tonight: mmmmmm… as Campbell’s would say, that’s “mmm mmm good”