Mon, 11 May 2009
Buying Stuff
Early last Thursday morningI woke up when I heard a crash. Yje shelves in my bookcase had collapsed. It seems that their fiberboard core softened in the damp weather we've been having. Saturday I bought a new bookcase from Ikea and this morning I assembled it. It's taller and narrower than my old bookcase. I had better hope there are no earthquakes in Baltimore, or I'll die in my sleep when it topples over on me.
I also bought a new laptop computer. It's one of those new netbooks and it's intended mostly for taking notes. It replaces my Alphasmart, whicg gave up the ghost during Drupon's last visit. I should have asked him to do phowa for it. It shipped with Windows NT, which I intend to replace with Ubuntu. Though it's a netbook, it's powerful enough to server as my main computer, if only its screen were bigger. I may do a little development on it, so I plan to install Apache and Mysql. And with emacs, I'll be able to take notes the way God, I mean Richard Stallman, intended.
