Lets see, since my last post my Zbrush did come but I have not has as much time with it as I would have liked.  Also, an update to the OS fixed that pinch zoom on my laptop.

My birthday is tomorrow, which is extremely exciting.  As a present I got an iPhone.  Excitement!  The pinch zoom on the phone does not bother me at all, hehe.

I’m in the process of redoing my website somewhat.  I’m sticking with the same layout, the lion head in the top left, but the content is getting redone.  When I’m done the site will be all .php pages rather than html.  I have discovered the art of includes and I love them!  Wow do they make life simpler.

Speaking of website, I have news on professional side of things as well. 1) I might have three freelance gigs in the works.  *fingers crossed*  Heres hoping they all go through.  VFS tuition won’t raise itself. 2) I might be going into business with one of my friends.  We are trying to figure out a name for the LLC right now.

My new computer came and I LOVE it.  The only problem is this darn pinch zoom on the touch pad.  It doesn’t work right when I want it to and when I’m just web browsing all of a sudden the screen will basically explode, and by that I mean zoom in 400% without any warning.  All of my software is installed, except Zbrush which is still in the mail.  Painter did come, and its amazing.  I’m using it to do the background for the SIGGRAPH website.  Its coming along nicely thus far.

Well, thats all the time I have to update right now.  Back to work.

The first big thing is a new MacBook Pro!  Mine had another hardware crash and they are sending me a new one.  I honestly think I got the worst MacBook Pro ever made based on the amount of things that had gone wrong with it.  3 hard drive crashes, 2 hard drive replacements, screen replacement, new logic board, 2 video card replacements, new usb ports, new keyboard, and now the disc drive has gone out.  That is not normal for a Mac, I’m sure of it.  Anyways, they are sending me a brand new one!  My hard drive is jumping from 120 to 500, ram 2gb to 4gb, and the processor is increasing in speed as well.  I am very very happy and anxious for it to get here.  I plan on moving all of the information on my external to the new computer and turning the 1tb external into a Time Machine.

I already deactivated my Adobe CS3 license and deauthorized my old computer’s itunes library so they will work on the new computer.  I hope there is nothing else I need to deactivate, I ran into that problem with Maya 2008 when it was sent off for a new screen and came back with new usb ports, new logic board, new screen, new video card, and new hard drive.  Maya doesn’t recognize it as the same computer anymore.  I bought a legitimate copy and I can’t even use it, it really sucks.  When the new computer comes I’m going to try installing it again and if it still won’t take I’m calling up Autodesk to explain the situation and hopefully they will reset the key code.

The other two items in the mail are software.  Zbrush and Corel Painter.  I don’t know which I’m more excited about between the two.  I was supposed to get them 4 months ago, but better late than never.

When the new computer comes installing all my software again is going to be fuuun.  And by fun I mean take FOREVER!  Between CS3 Master Collection, Maya, and World of Warcraft I’m already looking at a full day.  Not to mention I need to transfer all of my files and music library off the external.  Its going to be a time consuming process but will definitely be worth it.