40. (with egg)

And another one joins the Borg -- I bought a MacBook Pro. Though using a Mac is rather slow for me at this point since my keyboard navigation is hard-wired into my nerves system, I see to many advantages to avoid it any longer. Speed, the fact that it's a hard-core Unix system, stability, cool-kid factor... the list goes on and on. But this was the real ringer: a coworker of mine is working at a client with several hard-core sysadmin hackers, and guess what they have switch to? No, not a Dell or ThinkPad with some crazy, hand-compiled version of Linux, but Macs.

On a non-techie note, buying this thing was a wonderful experience. I have been watching the Apple Refurbished Store for the latest Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros and they started appearing a few weeks ago. Same warentee, so why not save a few bucks? Anyway, I dropped the hammer on one yesterday morning, it shipped that same afternoon, and was delivered the next day, all for free shipping. Good service!

Now I have to install Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL... oh boy.