Talk about embarassing
March 18th, 2009 • chatter
So, my site has been unavailable for almost 4 days now and I had no idea. I’ve been way too busy entertaining company for two weeks to really pay that much attention. Now I feel really dumb because of that and I was going to update earlier this week but did not do so, and now that I have I realize why my stats dropped to zero recently. Whoops!
I got a new Dell Mini 9 last week and I’m still getting used to the keyboard. The laptop itself is great. Small and very lightweight with a fantastic screen and fairly decent webcam but it’s hard getting used to this extremely non-standard keyboard. I’m still hitting Enter because I think it’s the apostrophe key since I have no idea why Dell thought it was a smart idea to move the key to beside the miniscule arrow keys instead of making the Enter key a half-sized key so the apostrophe would be in its normal place. Really, that’s my only kvetch about this thing, besides the default Dell-branded Ubuntu 8.04 installation they have. It’s horrifically out of date (as a one year old OS, Dell offers no official updates from Canonical for it! And it has plenty of updates), cluttered, and far more locked down than needed with some serious user interface issues. I’ve been running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackelope Alpha5 since I got the Mini and it’s so much nicer than 7.04 that’s on my 700m and much better to use than Dell’s own 8.04.
It’s been raining for almost two days straight now, fairly unusual for this time of year. Normally it just rains for an hour or two a day everyday, but it’s been raining solidly since mid-day March 17. While the rain is very much needed, I could have used a real heads-up last night when I went out for St. Patrick’s Day and ended up riding home in a downpour . That was bearable except for my soaking wet legs and the stinging rain on my face. However, it was a great excuse to thoroughly dry the bike and re-lube the chain with my homemade bike stand. I really would not mind a hydraulic bike table but with the room I have, this homemade stand works perfectly.
This weekend is supposed to be the 1st annual American Cancer Society Ride for Strides Breast Cancer poker run on 22 March 2009 at the Starbucks at 5050 Town Center Drive, Boca Raton, FL. However, I know the weather is of great concern. There’s a 30% chance of rain forecasted for Sunday but it was a 30% chance all day yesterday and it rained just about all day. I wish the Myspace page for this had a update instead of a phone number, I don’t really feel like calling this random guy when he could just post on Myspace and update a lot more people with a lot less hassle.
Ah well, such is life. I think it’s time to go charge up the Mini and watch some TV.
