Houston, we have a problem.

So here I am without my primary computer.  Last Tuesday it up and died.  The hard drive started making that horrible "zzzt, zzzt, zzzt" sound that signifies the electronic death.  Fortunately, my primary machine is a Macbook Pro with Timemachine backups.  The bad news is that the Apple store said that it would be 3-5 days before it was ready to be picked up.  I'll still have to restore the backup before I get started.

So for the past 5 days I've been climbing the walls.  I was so close to finalizing the last of the registration and getting this launched for real.  Regardless, the last push was on Friday before the failure, so even if I can't get it all back, I'm only a few days behind.

In the meantime, I've been on an Ubuntu kick.  I've spent the past several days rebuilding a couple of laptops and a desktop that I had lying around the house.  On my Mac, I've been building the site using MAMP and it occurred to me that I need to be my SVN server up and running so that if something happens in the future that I should be able to pick up where I left off on any of the LAMP computers instead. 

I admit that I really like Ubuntu.  Linux has come a long way in the past 2 years.  I try to like it every few years and I always come away wanting to beat the machine with a sledge hammer.  Not this time.  I like it so much that I'm attempting to rebuild my old Windows XP Media Center machine into my primary Development server.  I always anticipated that at some point that I would have to put this into a traditional software development environment and now is as good a time as any while I sit around waiting on my Mac.

So those of you waiting for the official launch, I'm at least a week behind now.  I should be ready to go early June now.

On an off topic.  I was looking at my Twitter followers and noticed that the Atlanta LB3 starting following me.  That is awesome.  My Son will be in their summer camp at KSU.  Hopefully I'll get a chance to show off the software during that week.  Look forward to meeting you guys!  In the meantime, keep up with my progress here.

That's it for now.  I will be posting a new Feature Focus and Bug list in the morning.  Its almost time for Game of Thrones now, so time to close down for now.