So I just heard about a hacker space starting up in Colorado Springs via the Defcon home page. Between work, projects and getting ready for the burn, I totally forgot about Defcon. Though it’s not like I had any money for it anyways…

Last week, a friend decided to pick up the iPhone 4 and asked if I wanted to buy his 3G off of him. I’ve been pondering doing a side by side between the HTC Dream and the iPhone for a while know so I bit and picked it up from him for pretty cheap. The difference is night and day. The Android platform, while it works as a phone, and while it’s better then the other smart phones on the market, is years behind the iPhone in both design and function. Despite the lack of 3G on mine (I’ve put it on TMobile), I’m now using it as my main phone. Mostly because the battery life is so much better.

Last night I decided, now that I’ve got a macbook pro and an iphone to try out OSx86 on my desktop. I’ve been through Windows Vist, 7, Gentoo, back to XP and now that I have OSX running, I feel like I can at least use the damn thing again. Windows Vista and 7 both hate the hardware, Windows XP is just too far out of date, and Linux, while it’s nice to have a machine I can ssh into at home sometimes without having to set up another machine, just doesn’t have the audio tools I need on a daily basis.

I respect all operating systems at this point because they all have their uses but for a desktop machine, which allows me to do all of the audio and development work, save PIC32 programming (which is strange in a lot of ways anyways), OS X is the only things that seems to fit most of my needs.

I’m currently working on pulling this site off of RoR and putting into Tomcat. I’m sick of all the ruby mumbo jumbo that holds up further development of this place. Sure, now I have to deal with flat SQL, input sanitization, and my own hacked up authentication methods but, welcome to the real world, things like this are what make me happy to develop. For now, that’s all I’ll say here. More text here is more text there later during the switch over.

Back to the MUNG Labs announcement! I’ve been pondering about making a music/hacking space for a bit now. I’ve been kind of let down due to the lack of motivated people I’ve run into, but I’m sure there out there. Honestly, I know they do on the Music end of things but I’m not so sure on the hacking end of things. If I can get all my ducks in a row I may be able to afford subleasing a space from them.I look forward to their next meeting.