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So I had planned on waiting until tomorrow to work on this, but after work tonight I couldn’t wait. I scrounged up an XP CD we had collecting dust in the bottom of a desk drawer. After about 2.5 hours of playing around this post is coming to you from Windows XP on my MacBook Pro.

So far everything works great. Everything being my wireless adapter and Firefox. It is getting late and I will no doubt load up my favorite apps tomorrow and put this through it’s paces a bit more. It is also very fast, it is a fresh XP install though….I’m sure it will slow down.

As for the process I had to get the firmware update and OSX update. Then I only ran into one snag. There was some kind of problem with my hard drive partition. The installer suggested that I run Disk Utility from my startup disk and run a repair. Well that was at the office, so instead booted single-user mode and ran fsck. One the volume was repaired I was off and running. A very smooth hour long XP install. More to come on this topic I am sure.

First problem to solve….how to write click with a trackpad that only has one button!

Apple has gotten on the “boot XP on your Mac” bandwagon. They have an offical beta for doing this now called boot camp. As soon as I get my hands on an XP SP2 CD I am going to boot camp.

Following up a number 1 ranking from Consumer Reports and ConsumerSearch.com, a 4.5 out of 5 from MacFan Magazine, Safe Eyes has scored 4 out of 5 from PC Magazine and been chosen as “Editor’s Choice”. This is a big deal in the parental controls space. For the last 5 years the Editor’s Choice designation has gone to the same product. Safe Eyes broke the cycle. Read About Safe Eyes Editors Choice Here.

My latest friend to join the ranks of blogging is King Wulfgar. He is an XBox 360/Live nut. I mean nut in the good way of course. He is also a comment whore (I also mean whore in the good way) so stroll over to his blog and hook him up with a comment or two.

Se we show up to work one day to the sight of soggy carpet. OK, honestly the fans were already blowing on the carpet to dry it out by the time I arrived. Those of you who know me, know that I am not exactly the first one to arrive at the office.

Anyway, our watercooler had sprung a leak. So when this type of thing happens, who do you call? Exactly…the Mythbusters. An hour or two after our urgent call Jamie showed up to fix the watercooler.

Luckily I had my digital camera at the office becase…..you know I honestly don’t know why. Anyway here is the proof:

For those of you who know me and my brother you will recognize that grey, ur I mean white, Ford Explorer in the foreground and will realize that this photo has not been lucky enough to be treated to my mad photoshopping skills.

I didn’t see the TV crew, so I’m guessing Jamie was just trying to make some extra cash while the show was in re-runs, and honestly what better place to do that then Acworth Georgia?