After more than a year of patching, plugging, and constant hand-holding my Windows PC has died. It was a slow dying process and I did all that I could, but it was limping along so I did the humane thing and shot it in the head. Not really, but I did buy a new Macbook Pro which is sort of the same thing if you are Mr. Bill Gates.

So now I have the fun task of setting up everything that I need to be up-and-running. But luckily Mac OS X has all the main things I need already setup; Apache, PHP, Ruby. I just have to copy-and-paste a few configuration directives from my old server setup into my new server’s config file and everything should be ready to roll.

To be quite honest that old PC has always been a royal pain. No more than 3 months after I bought the thing I was reformatting the main hard drive. I swore back then that no matter how seemingly “cheap” Windows PC’s were I would never purchase another one for use as my main production machine. I won’t mention the manufacturer, but their name begins will the letter “D” and rhymes with “Hell,” which is much like the experience I had with their products.

Onward, forward, and back into the familiar realm of an Apple computer! :-)

That is a really good question, actually. Where have I been? Up to my eyeballs in work and musical endeavors plus raising two boys with my wife. It has been a busy, busy year to say the least. (more…)

Update: Sadly, this venture did not work out as I had planned. In fact, Accessible Computing currently owes me more than $5,000 for work completed that was not paid for. Word of caution to developers who may try and get work from this company: DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER IT! You will be sorry that you did. (more…)