Starting with a laptop that wnet kablooey (at least I've broken the "stolen out of my car" jinx!) and then heroic efforts by Andy to help me get a working laptop by salvaging parts, we finally threw in the towel and got a new laptop.
Fortunately for me, laptops seem to be complying with Moore's Law! They get faster, prettier, more powerful and more fun while at the same time getting cheaper.
What doesn't get a whole lot easier is transferring your life from one laptop to another. However, once again, Andrew to the rescue. In a matter of a few hours, he had my new HP DV2050US up and running!
So, once I get my pix library back here and my music library loaded, life will be good! The new laptop is fast, light and fun to use.
More later!
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Monday, September 11, 2006
Perspective
It's 9/11 and you can't encounter a media outlet that isn't in a feeding frenzy of . . . what? Fear? Sorrow? Ad revenue? It makes me want to crawl in a hole and not come out til tomorrow!
Yes, 9/11 was sad, tragic, all of that. But, in the grand scheme of things?
Well, it is a tiny fraction of the death and suffering in a single day, let alone five years. Places like Irag, Darfur, and just plain ol' life in the Congo, it's barely a day's worth of suffering.
Wired was the one set of links on my Google page that made any sense.
A Million Ways to Die gives us "color alert" to what will really kill us! And guess what is at the bottom of the list? You guessed it, terrorism.
Give Me Honor, or Give Me Death also helps explain why our government, Dick Chaney, Don Rumsfeld and our puppet president keep hauling us down the road of fear and chaos. Far from eschewing the "honor killing" culture of some of the environments we find ourselves embroiled in as a country, they are "fighting fire with fire" and from that wretched viewpoint, they see us as winning. Good grief!
Ok, now that I've got that off my chest, on the bright side, I'm reading a book I highly recommend, Joy at Work by Dennis Bakke. It is a refreshing view of what it takes to run a company the people want to work for.
Finally, one of the reasons for a lack of blogging in my life has been my crippled computer. Using a laptop with half a screen is an interesting exercise in minimalism (and minimizing). However, Andy helped me buy a salvage laptop whose fully functioning we will combine with another functioning laptop with broken screen and create a whole computer! Can't wait!
Yes, 9/11 was sad, tragic, all of that. But, in the grand scheme of things?
Well, it is a tiny fraction of the death and suffering in a single day, let alone five years. Places like Irag, Darfur, and just plain ol' life in the Congo, it's barely a day's worth of suffering.
Wired was the one set of links on my Google page that made any sense.
A Million Ways to Die gives us "color alert" to what will really kill us! And guess what is at the bottom of the list? You guessed it, terrorism.
Give Me Honor, or Give Me Death also helps explain why our government, Dick Chaney, Don Rumsfeld and our puppet president keep hauling us down the road of fear and chaos. Far from eschewing the "honor killing" culture of some of the environments we find ourselves embroiled in as a country, they are "fighting fire with fire" and from that wretched viewpoint, they see us as winning. Good grief!
Ok, now that I've got that off my chest, on the bright side, I'm reading a book I highly recommend, Joy at Work by Dennis Bakke. It is a refreshing view of what it takes to run a company the people want to work for.
Finally, one of the reasons for a lack of blogging in my life has been my crippled computer. Using a laptop with half a screen is an interesting exercise in minimalism (and minimizing). However, Andy helped me buy a salvage laptop whose fully functioning we will combine with another functioning laptop with broken screen and create a whole computer! Can't wait!
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