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I took the cabinet sides and used the circular saw to clean up some of the nastiness I left by using a spinsaw.  The trick is building a jig using a straight piece of wood and an aluminum guide.  You can use one edge of the wood to line up your cut and then use the aluminum to guide the saw in a straight line.

I also got the top of the control panel cut.  By the time I started I was getting pretty tired and really messed up the first cut.  Thankfully you can fix most cuts with more cutting.

Lots of cutting involved in creating a MAME cabinet.  This last weekend I managed to cut out the two side panels using my brand-new spinsaw from Canadian Tire.  It’s a sweet tool - a bunch of different rotary tools in one.  Like a Dremel, but more heavy-duty.

Thanks to the nice guys at Brightspot Consulting and their “win an iPod draw”, I’ve come away with a brand-spankin’-new 15Gb iPod.  First thing I did was get myself one of those amazing* *iTrip FM Transmitters from Griffin Technology.

These devices together make up an amazing one-two combo of convenience.  To get music working in my truck, I just pop the iTrip into the iPod, hit my iPod station preset and go.  As long as you keep the iPod’s volume around 70-75% you’ll get a crystal clear signal.  I tried using a cassette-tape-adapter at first, but this is by far more convenient.

You should be able to find the iTrip at your local Mac dealership.

Been busy over the last few weeks as we get married, took a week off hidden in the mountains of BC and then returned to Calgary to get back into our regular groove.  It’s been really hectic but a lot of fun.

Happy Canada Day! Klaus Salchner authored an excellent article on using NProf and ACT for profiling. It’s a good introduction to profiling and optimization techniques.

Still working on 0.9, but there’s not a great deal of time to get it polished for a release. Since there are thousands of downloads for 0.8b, I want to make sure that 0.9 is stable for general use.