I've been doing a ton of .NET work lately which has been a lot of fun. To me, Microsoft's finally gotten it right with .NET. If J2EE had an IDE like Visual Studio .NET we'd all probably still be using Java rather than happily coding away in C#.

We got a new guitar player for SMiRK and he's an absolute dream. PERFECT guitar player. The guy makes Nuno Bettencourt look like he's missing 3 fingers. We got him onstage last Saturday night when we played Voodoo Room and he just blew the crowd away, even though he insists he's rusty (not). Finally SMiRK can get some great originals going, we've got the missing piece to the band.

I got a new laptop last week that smokes my desktop machine. It's an HP Pavilion ZX5040US. I decided on the 2.8 gigahertz P4 instead of a Centrino because I needed the horsepower over battery life. I've got a gig of ram in it and it uses the ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 64mb video card... that little laptop vid card is putting my Geforce4 128mb desktop card to shame, heh heh. I also set up Blue Haven Technologies again. I was beginning to have too much business to not. I have to work on the site though, one of these years....planning to do some of that this weekend when I'm not gigging... SMiRK has a gig in Muskogee at Laid Back Lenny's on Saturday night -- it's about 35 minutes outside of Tulsa, so it's a little bit of a drive. I'm frustrated I forgot my laptop power adapter at work tonight so I'm eeking as much battery out of my laptop as I can before it takes its dirt nap for the rest of the evening. :)