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I did end up having a bit of trouble with Versions and Beanstalk. It happened when I upgraded my Beanstalk account to a paid account and, as part of the upgrade, got HTTPS connectivity to my repositories.

I recently decided to start using source control for my Mac software development. Yes, yes, I use source control - Subversion - all day long at work but had not gotten around to using it at home for other projects. One of the reasons is that I simply don't want the hassle of setting everything up. I want to code, not fool around with the administrative tedium of doing backups, maintaining a repository, setting up SSL and securing the server, etc. I have one dedicated server and that is enough trouble as is.

GM finally got around to sending their electric car - Volt - to the production line. The first models are due in showrooms in 2010.

I have been resisting the urge to spend any time using Twitter. However, I have recently conceived of a few areas of my life where it might be interesting to do some real-time micro-posting. So I'll be testing out the service over the next couple of weeks. In particular, I am aiming to do some real-time posting from the WWDC next week. I'll be arriving in San Fran on Sunday, leaving on Friday. With all of the recent performance and scalability issues Twitter has been having lately, it will be telling whether or not they can handle what I expect to be significant load during the Jobs keynote on the 9th. Anyway, more details inbound...

AT&T Purportedly Nixes Retail Employee Vacations Between June 15 and July 12: "

Vodafone to Offer Apple’s iPhone in Ten Markets: "

VMware Fusion 2.0 Public Beta: "

Turns out LaCie makes an excellent portable FireWire bus-powered 7200 rpm hard disk which implements a RAID 0 solution. The LaCie Little Big Disk Quadra does it all. This, my friends, is the ultimate drive for running a VM from an external drive to a MacBook Pro. It's 7200 rpm, RAID 0, FireWire 800 and has 400 GB of total storage space. Perfect.

I've been working with this new MacBook Pro for about 2 months now. I ordered the latest hardware refresh the day that it was released. I'm very happy with it. This new model replaced a 2-year old model which was also the "ultimate" configuration when it was out. One of the things I noticed about the new MacBook was the much faster hard disk. You can really notice the difference when you move to 7200 rpm from 5400 rpm.

I as you can see from an earlier post, I am working on finding the best home for my VMware guest disk file on my MacBook Pro. The LaCie BigDisk Extreme+ is looking like the best choice among hard disks but I wanted to know how the LaCie compares to the internal MacBook Pro drive. I have the latest "ultimate" configuration which includes the 7200 rpm 200 GB drive.