Sony Vaio P Series

Thanks to wonderful folks whom I will document later, I have decided to get the Sony Vaio P series tiny notebook - because I can 'downgrade' it to Windows XP. Yeah, like that's a downgrade - I will have Vista off this new PC so quick your head will spin ... reports from all fronts indicate that the P is a fast little fella once Vista has been removed...

1.5 pounds, can you imagine? The size of a business envelope? 2 GB of RAM? Yowza. This is the machine I've always wanted.

I've got the external USB DVD+RW coming from my favorite used-to-be-brick-and-mortar computer store, CompUSA, just won an auction for Windows XP Home Edition (full retail box version) (why did I ever sell mine???) and hopefully will be purchasing the P next week. No rush, right? No rush.

Gotta get XP in my hands, slipstream SP3, create the ISO image disk ... download all the XP-compatible drivers for the P, and ... well, then ... time to make my order, hmm...

I'm getting him in garnet red ...

And, of course, the P is a he ... and why not?

Kindle 2

I bought the Kindle 2, but of course I did ... had it almost two months now.

This gadget is a thing of beauty.

People complain about the cost of e-books and the Kindle and Amazon, but if they'd spent any amount of time driving around from bookstore to bookstore trying to find a book, or waiting for one to arrive via snail-mail, then they'd quit bitching. My time and my gasoline (as well as the wear and tear on my Mini Cooper) are worth more to me than some piddly amount I'd pay for a e-book from Amazon for my K2. Instant delivery, all without having to do a thing except press a few buttons.

I haven't spent more than 9.99 on an e-book, and have received several free books - and discovered a new author (to me) in the process. Robin Hobb, anybody? FitzChivalry and Nighteyes (dumb name, IMO) are my new best friends ...

Jaysus! On Easter Weekend, Too!

It has been so long since I logged in to my shift.click account I couldn't do it - oh noes! OH NOES!

But I did, and all is well now.

Not sure on this whole Lent thing, being a pagan and all, but - I think if I was religious I would have given up something ... since I'm not, but feel compelled ... I gave up tPF. I'll explain that later - .

I got it back!

I got the Shift Click name back! YAY! Frigging spammers were kicked off, I reckon.

YAY!

I am so happy! I so need a life!