New toy
You may have noticed that I haven’t posted recently. I know for sure that some have noticed it.
Well, at least some portion of that absence is due to the new toy I’m playing with. After many years with the same desktop computer, I just plunked down a bit of money to get modern. Quite a switch from a 500Mz Pentium III to a 64-bit AMD Athlon, from a 14GB drive to 250GB, from an 8MB video card to 64MB, from CD drives to rewriteable DVDs, from Windows98 to XP.
I’m still transferring files, reinstalling software, and all that. Man, there’s a pile of files to go through, to put somewhere appropriate. That’s tough when you’re as organizing-averse as I am. Haven’t yet replaced the default Firefox bookmarks file with the one from the old machine, so I’m writing this posting from my laptop ... which does have the link to get to my ExpressionEngine blog-publishing site. Still, this new machine flies compared to the old one, so it’ll definitely be a plus.
Oh, and I also splurged on a 17-inch flat-panel LCD monitor to replace my perfectly-good 17-inch CRT. Now I have to figure out what to do with the old one. It seems strange to have to pay someone to cart away your old monitor, so I’ll try to find someone who’d like a donation.
Comments
"I know for sure that some have noticed it."
What. People have been harassing you?
Oh, I wasn’t referring to anyone in particular…
Congratulations! What brought this about? Organizing aside, aren’t you glad you broke down and bought it? And a flat screen, too. Whoo!
Well, the old machine was getting ever more clunky, and free space on its hard drive was becoming ever more difficult to find. Not only that, updates on some software wouldn’t work on Win98 machines. So it was far beyond time to make the change.
On top of that, there was something of a Republican approach behind the decision to buy a new machine, and a flat-panel, and new MS Office, and new Quicken, and new Norton stuff. I’ll have more to say about that in a future blog posting.
donate the old computer to Seattle Public Schools.
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