I must be crazy.

I must be crazy. Just passed up on a good offer with a great guy for a new position. I made a mess of the most recent interview, still got offered a job despite it because it's not that uncommon for programmers to be poor speakers, I suppose, but I'm gonna gamble that Gaylord is going to keep us working for a while longer and look around a bit more. *sigh* Probably making a big mistake. Anyhow, we've got another demo on Monday and there's still a couple things to do, so I'll be employed through the weekend at any rate. ^_^

Ugly Icons

Bah. Okay, I decided to work from home on this project for work because I realized I could and maybe I won't get interrupted (I had a looooooooooooong day)

Technically, yesterday was my last day as a member of the GPB team but I'm still using my office there for this GPS stuff and when I got there today, I found chaos and spend several hours reigning in the madness. Technically, it's no longer my job but someone needed to take care of stuff ASAP and what I need to get done has to be done by Monday morning.

Anyhow, I knew MacOS supports X-11 and so I made sure I could ssh onto the machine at work and then came home, downloaded the X11 stuff and got it running (Okay, like 3 mouse-clicks. It's a Mac after all!) Also downloaded netbeans and did some quick code-flags so I can I work on my machine from logfiles instead of communcating with the serial port (Designed the program with this all along since there's only one serial port and two developers) Netbeans is almost bearable on my Mac. Still a bit slow but compared to sshing to a 400Mhz StinkPad with Fedora on it, it's massively faster (and prettier! Java looks cute on OS-X!)

I do, however, have one complaint. The icons for X11 and Netbeans are butt-ugly. The class with all my other mac icons. Okay, X11 has a lame excuse. It's mostly being used by unixgeeks who feel more l33t when they have a retro-looking icon but netbeans (and the Java one isn't very exciting either) don't have any real excuse. Sun is a big freakin' company. They could spend $100 getting someone to design a decent icon that goes with the OS you're running it on.

Ohwell. I just needed to take a break from thread messenging. Back to work slave!