I forgot to post this last month, and I have since acquired a couple more pieces of equipment the most impressive one being an HP DL360G5 4G RPS Performance Server. Dual QC 5345 Xeon, 16gb FB ECC RAM, 6×146gb 10K SAS SFF hard drives, in a 1U. Here is the post I saved last month. Don’t miss the recent photos at the bottom of the post.

In 2007 a friend and I both started moving out equipment to rack mount setups. We each had our own reasons, but the common reasons were saving space, organization, and it is kinda nice to say you have a rack in your house. When I was looking for a rack/cabinet I found someone a couple hours away that had a lightly used 45U fully enclosed cabinet for sale. The cabinet came with sides, doors, caster base, two shelves, four-fan unit for the top, and a $350 price tag. A few days after picking up the cabinet I spoke with him again and we made a deal that resulted in me having an entire car full (trunk full and front and back seats full to the ceiling) of equipment. I recreated an album containing the older pictures of the cabinet, and how things were organized, which can be viewed in the Rack Project album.
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The other day I purchased an iPod touch with the hopes of having a mp3 player that did what I wanted and a platform to develop applications on. Prior to using the touch I had never used a touch screen Apple product moee than a couple minutes so I left the store wondering how many days I had to return it. That night I spent over three hours playing with the device and the apps in the store, it was very hard for me to put the device down. I love my G1, since I work for Google the integration the device gives me is very important to me and would keep me from using something else. So that being said I love how smooth the iPhone and iPod Touch are, how easy the onscreen keyboard is to use, and the amazing apps that are available. I think the G1 will get to the same point, things will obviously be different and one will have features the other one doesn’t have, but the big difference right now is device maturity. There have been things about the iPhone that people have disliked that are now being fixed and things missing from Android are being added. I enjoy having the G1 as my primary device, but I think having the touch available to do certain things is important. I have been using my touch for most of my Twittering and I am currently writing this blog post from the awesome Wordpress app in the store. The keyboard took some time getting used to but now I can type pretty fast on the device and most things I miss are caught by the auto correct. One oft big worries before buying the device was size, and how it would feel in my pocket at work. It is so thing that I don’t even notice is when I am work so I can move freely without it being this giant block in my pocket. I also don’t have it moving around in my pocket freely like smaller players might. Overall I am very happy with the purchase they won’t get me to move to an iPhone, but I support the use of the touch to complent the Android based products.