I've ordered my first Mac

I ordered my first Macintosh today: a MacBook Pro. I'm excited. I've wanted one for quite some time, but never had a good justification.

It finally happened today. Cisco is now supporting Macs, and they are finding their way into our labs, so I must support them. I need to be familiar with them, so I ordered one.

As familiar as I am with them from a distance, I have a lot to learn. I'm looking forward to it.

Our 2008 trip to Las Vegas

Ryan and my trip to Las Vegas for this year is booked. We're going for two nights only in late August to see King's X at the House of Blues. This year, we're taking our good friend Hobbes. It's going to be excellent.

a new tool/toy

I got a new computer today. As a matter of fact, I'm typing this on it now. It's an Asus Eee PC 900, running Linux -- Xandros to be exact.

It's a neat little thing; it's kinda like a cross between and iPhone and a Windows laptop. It's really small, but easier to type on than a phone. With a little more practice, I should be able to touch type on it; I'm close to being able to do so now. Like an iPhone, it's all solid state, and it doesn't run Windows, so it's quickly usable on demand. But like a Windows laptop, it runs full apps including Firefox and Thunderbird so I can get much more done.

It's tiny, with a 9-inch wide-format screen, and weighs 0.999 kg - 2.2 pounds, according to Google. Yet the display is 1024x600, so there's a good amount of real estate. I'm able to use all my normal web apps without any trouble.

Yep, I think I'm falling in love with this little bugger.

It's showing its true Linux roots in that I had to follow a complicated multi-step process to set up the exotic wireless network setting we have at work, and it still didn't work.

But wireless at home came up perfectly the first time, so that was nice.

Overall I love it so far.

That's it for first impressions. I'll post more as I become more familiar with it.