It’s taken a week of blood, sweat and tears, but I am now writing this blog entry on my new toy, an Asus eee PC. It’s half the size of my work laptop, weight just a little more than a kilo and has all the functionality that I want and need, including the 8-hour battery life :)<\/p>\n
It does have a bit of a quirky personality though. The linux installation on it is a bit flaky and, though everything works, there is a definite “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” vibe about it. You do not want to start upgrading packages because you can because that way madness – and full disks and factory resets – lie. Otherwise though, I’m really happy about it. It means that I’ll be able to travel and have all the full use of a laptop, without having to carry all that weight around.<\/p>\n
The timing is very convenient and it will be tested in anger next week when I go to Amsterdam to give a presentation at HUPO 2008. Since I have crossover and the MS Offfice installed on this thing, I can even hack my presentation in the next few days before I present. It’s at times like these where I really love technology.<\/p>\n
Having said that, there are times when it sorely tries my patience. I tried for two days to get some videos to load on my ipod without any success and had to finally give up in disgust.\u00a0 I’ve also found out that the portable hard-drive that I use as a backup disk doesn’t seem to want to mount on my eee – which is a pain – but I can use SDHC cards to avoid this problem as both our home desktop and laptops have SD card readers. We are geeks and life is good.<\/p>\n
In other news, Canada finally seems to have made it in the medals – about time too – and there will be ikea trips in the near future to go buy a cot-bed and other nursery sundries.<\/p>\n
And now, fajitas beckon!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s taken a week of blood, sweat and tears, but I am now writing this blog entry on my new toy, an Asus eee PC. It’s half the size of my work laptop, weight just a little more than a kilo and has all the functionality that I want and need, including the 8-hour battery…<\/p>\n