Well, golly

OKAY! So, I am now currently typing a new blog from home. How is the feat of wizardry possible? Did I somehow acquire a laptop lightning speed? No. Did I miraculously ressurect my dead machine? Not quite. Some time ago in Colorado I visited an Internet room at a small hotel which had free copies of a linux install called Ubuntu. In the packaging were two CDs: one for a full install, and one which claimed to run straight from CD. I remember trying this second disk on two machines: one worked, one didn't. I was always impressed that it worked at all, and I've carried the disks around with me more for the sake of marvel than any real application. Well, now that demo is really shining. On an otherwise dead machine, I can temporarily load an OS, equipped with Firefox browser, that recognizes all my hardware sufficiently to allow my Internet to function. Presto! Updates from home! I still need to work on getting a permanent solution for writing and file-saving, but at least I essentially have a "terminal" now, if not a full-blown PC. Aint that something.