Well... more than 1 year since I've posted... gotta admit I'm a slacker, not just on my blog but on almost everything else too!

Let's see where do I begin catching up all you non-readers.

I've recently purchased a new Dell computer, a Dimension E520 with a dual core processor and 2 Gigs of RAM... this thing is quite a step forward from what I was using... but I wont go into detail on that though I don't want to bore all you people who might be reading this :-)

One of the first things I did with this new machine is partition the heck out of it. I usually create a C: partition with about 20 Gig of space just for the core Windows installation (gotta leave room for all those updates)... I also create a E: partition 150 Gig for all installed applications and I create a D: partition 50 Gig for all virtual machines. (by the way I now wish I had reversed my space allocations and gave E: 50 Gig and D: 150 Gig) I run VMWare as my virtual machine platform... If you know anything about VMWare you know that there are a lot of capabilities. I've never been a fan of dual boot configurations instead I prefer virtual machines. I'll go into more detail on how I use VMWare in a later post.

I'm also still heavy into web development. As many of you know Adobe has purchased Macromedia. Adobe has also purchased one of my favorite 3rd party extension developers InterAKT. I haven't really used the new CS3 suite as of yet. I simply don't want to fork over all the cash at this point. I'm just starting to get into ColdFusion 8 so I'll be posting more about my experiences with it as I use it more.

This summer we purchased a vinyl fence from Lowes and they also installed it. The experience from start to finish with Lowes was a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being very pleasant. Parts were missing, deadlines were broken and the project manager was a jerk! (the jerk part takes two points away)

Other than this skimpy update there have been other changes and events that I haven't mentioned but I'll post more later.

-Warren