Come for the Ride!

After an extremely long day at work, I fought through Peachtree traffic and arrived at the atdc to kick off the Startup weekend. First impressions? Definitely a LOT of hackers. In fact, when I arrived, I had a really “Legally Blonde” moment cause everyone brought their laptops to the event while all I had was a measly iPhone as my “computer”.

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Welp… it seems like I was able to buy my way into the Atlanta Startup Weekend for a mere $20.

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It’s been a busy few days trying to port over all the existing data from my HP laptop to my network drive and getting important programs for the new Macbook so I can carry on business as usual. An odd but great thing I’m now getting used to is the lack of crappy programs I have to install to make everyday things work. iChat replaced two chat programs that I would have had to download on the PC. Various iLife programs have replaced all the random and off beat programs I would have needed to install to watch and burn CDs and DVDs on my PC. The Mac version of the Office have pretty much eliminated my need to use Office 2007, even though the two are somewhat different. (I do remember hearing that the Mac version will be upgrading in a couple of months or so.) The last and somewhat annoying piece of the migration is the Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver that I’d like to have, but currently lack.

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After years of swearing by PC’s and receiving recommendations from friends that swear by Windows, .net and other MS technologies, I’ve finally decided to analyze my personal computing needs and ended up switching to the Mac. More specifically, I just bought a 15″ MacBook Pro.

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Per Mashable’s blog post, Google’s OpenSocial API is now live. This comes only a few days after the announcement, which is somewhat bittersweet for me.

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