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There is no other platform on which you can develop for all platforms, testing in all browsers.

1. Unix/Linux can’t run Internet Explorer (reliably, see: WINE) and the rendering engine in Konqueror is used in Mac OS X’s Safari but it’s not close enough
2. Windows can’t run Safari either, and there’s no reliable Mac OS X emulator, save PearPC which runs like a dog, as heavily beta emulation software should.

With Mac OS X, you have Safari, IE (and .NET development) through VirtualPC all the Mozilla/Gecko browsers and, if done properly, all the X11 browsers (Konqueror, etc.) by running X11 in Mac OS X.

So, yes, it is the way, the truth and the life.

I now live in Canada and I love it. I will never leave Canada, if I can help it.

But if there’s one place in the United States that I would live, it would be Iowa. I’ve lived in Illinois, Missouri, Texas, California and Iowa and Iowa is the one place I’d return to.

If Iowa were annexed by Canada, I’d move there. I have friends and family there, yes, but it’s more than that. There’s good people there – perhaps a little conservative for my taste – but good people nonetheless.

So for those of you whose goal it is to “leave Iowa” I don’t blame you: get out and see, but it’s a wonderful place to come home to.

Well, here’s the deal:

I work in a government institution. I could probably stop right there and you’d get the drift.

Nothing changes here. If it does, it takes blood. And the government (most of them) eat everything Microsoft gives them. So we have .NET by default and we currently use ColdFusion for everything.

I dig Rails – I’d love to use it here – but I don’t see how that’ll happen. Especially since it doesn’t play nice with IIS yet.

Ugh.