I have no business having a blog. I don’t update it nearly enough to be worthwhile. Anyway . . .

Several weeks Blue died. I was actually a little relived. She’d been dying ever since I first got her. I started saving for a new notebook last year and the practical side of me hoped that Blue could hang on long enough for me to afford a new computer. The other side of me wanted a new computer that worked. By early March I only had about half the money I thought I needed to replace Blue. However, Jaeger generously allowed me to borrow from the general fund assuming I pay it back in regular increments each month. It may sound a little odd saying that I borrowed from the general fund. However, Jaeger and I each have separate “expenditure allocations” that we use to buy most personal items.

Anyway, my new computer is a Dell Latitude D620 named Adara. She’s much cuter than I expected. Once of the reasons I bought her is that Jaeger has a D810 for work which he is pretty happy with. Also Dells seem to be in ascendancy at BLUG which implied to me that it should work decently with Linux (the previous favorite was IBM Thinkpads but rumor implies that Lenova may not be as Linux friendly). I keep buying notebook computers because I tend to drag my computer with me around the house.

Jaeger installed Ubuntu on her (after “accidentally” deleting the original Windows partition). Once Jaeger installed Ubuntu he also set up XP to run under VMWare and he was successfully able to transfer all the files I needed from Blue’s old hard drive so I didn’t lose any data. On Blue, Jaeger set up Windows to run under VMWare and I quickly decided this was the best way to run Linux and Windows on the same computer. Most things I do in Linux. However, I still use a couple of Windows only applications. It’s really nice to avoid restarting Adara every time I want to sync my iPod