the corner office

Needless to say, I got over here and needed a laptop pronto, so after spending ages back in ZA researching Dells and Thinkpads, I needed an off-the-shelf and decided to hold off on investing in a dream machine just yet. Instead I got myself an Acer Aspire 5630, which looked like a solid buy, and is so far turning out to be quite a nice machine. The integrated graphics card isn't ideal, and WXGA feels a little claustrophic, but I can't complain.

This baby came with XP Media Centre, which I'm sticking with for now, and running Linux inside a VMWare partition. I brought all my hard drives over with me as carry on luggage, but I soon realised that my current VMs weren't going to do me much good, since they were all 64 bit, and I'm back to 32 bit now. So a new Ubuntu server it is.

As for XP Media Center, I was rather chuffed to discover that it has a fishbowl screensaver. It reminded me of the old Macintosh After Dark screensaver from the 90's, but needless to say, fishbowl screensavers have come a looong way since then.

I'm going to be rambling about new versus old experiences a lot for a while. Newest adjustment: British keyboards. I keep getting my quotes and @s mixed up. It's kinda cool to have a £ symbol on a keyboard though. I like it. £££.