The only way that this has any tie-in to Busse is that I recall a comment from Tom (Private Klink) comparing how much it cost for a meal at Fogos (people meet there at Blade) with going to the Olive Garden. I ate at Olive Garden for the first time yesterday, and the food was excellent. Olive Garden is a little higher priced than the restaurants I normally go to, but I wanted something a little different so decided to give them a try. They push overpriced wine pretty hard, which I passed on, but I ordered the Parmesan - Polenta Crusted Steak, with the Chicken & Gnocchi soup as my side. The Parmesan - Polenta Crusted Steak is a limited time item; I think they said it'll rotate off the menu in a couple weeks. It was was a very tasty, but it was the Chicken & Gnocchi that really impressed me -- is was the best soup I can remember ever eating. I might even just go for the Soup & Salad next time.

While I'm off topic anyway, other news is that I'm about to make the switch from a PC desktop to a Macbook Pro. I've been a server-site Java webapp programmer for several years, but my company has made a strategic decision to move from Java to Python (using the Django web framework).

A couple of the developers got new 64-bit Windows 7 computers recently, and have had horrible times with them; especially with file line-ending issues when checking projects in and out of our (Git) code repositories. Additionally, while some Python developers use Windows, most use Macs (or even Linux), so we've encountered problems installing Python libraries. Rather than continuing to go against the grain, my boss got approval to outfit the development staff with new 15-inch Macbook Pro laptops (i7 processor, 8-Gig of RAM, 500-Gig / 7200 RPM drives). Our programmers who support .NET apps can use VMware Fusion with performance comparable to working on a Windows box, but development new non-IIS projects should go much more smoothly. This'll be a huge transition for me because I've never owned a laptop or a Mac, although my boss said that it only took him a couple weeks to get comfortable with his Mac, and that since the underlying OS is BSD Linux, my exposure to supporting our UNIX Web servers will help.