Macs vs Pc's - The truth illustrated

I thought this was a very good illustration depicting the overall differences between the two platforms.

Pandora - Not FM, not AM and not XM

I have tons of music on the tunes server at work (about 250gb) and a subset of my favorites sitting on an iPod classic (160gb) in my car. A friend at work turned me onto a site called Pandora. What they do is create a custom playlist of music based off of a starter album, artist or song. So for instance type in Van Halen and they'll create an endless playlist of music including Van Halen and other bands/genres that sound like them. The music is streamed from their servers to you.

I've been listenting to the service on a new iPhone app called Pandora Radio for the better part of the morning. I am blown away by how good this server can match the mood of whatever sound i'm into at the time. The service and appliations costs nothing and are completely ad-free. I dont know how they make money or how exactly they do it (music genome project i believe) but it's very cool. Give it a shot.

iPhone games

This is a screenshot from the 'games' page on my new iPhone 3g. I picked up several free games and a few paid ones. If you're looking for something fun my top picks are:

• aqua forest - super cool physics based simmulator
• monkey ball is ok but hard to controll (wish i didnt pay for this one)
• enigmo - very cool physics based game... i paid for this one
• aurora forest - free game with high production value. big thumbs up
• crash bandikoot cart - fun game (paid for this one).. i like!

Pics of work setup part deuce

Even more mess

• boatloads of developer and tech books
• unorganized video dv tape
• mic for recording audio
• and more mess...

Pics of work setup

Clean and organized it is NOT!

• four monitors (3 crd, 1 lcd)
• music mp3 server (windows server 2003)
• dev box 1 (mac book pro dual boot vista/osx)
• dev box 2 (xp/vista)
• qa box (xp)
• media prod. for audio/video work (Mac G5 dual proc)
• Conf. laptop (Vista)
• phones and pdas for mobile dev. (blackberry, moto q, iphone, treo etc.)