Resurrection

I have been hiding under a rock the last month. Seriously, I have had many projects take precedent over other recreational activities... such as blogging, and yes, I have been missing writing on here, which incidentally only my mother and my two fans read regularly. I guess I felt like I needed a vacation from my routines.

It's funny because I really do enjoy writing, and was at many times the last month, motivated to write, but I just couldn't seem to find the time to sit down and really write something.

I am currently writing this post from a laptop (yes, the infamous iBook laptop), that has died more than one horrible death since I bought it some time in 2003. The last time I tried playing with this machine, I had it up and running for about 10 minutes, before the video all scrambled up.

Then, thanks to a post at Low End Mac, someone posted a how-to turn an old iBook with a dead video card into a server. "Ah!", said I, "I found a new use for my little old laptop that has given me so much grief over the years" -- at least almost the entire life of this blog.

So one Friday evening, I pulled out the old iBook out of the storage closet, plugged in the battery, and soon found out (after wiping a corrupted hard drive), that the video had fixed itself autonomously without me having to perform any Voodoo rituals. I set up an OSX server and played with it for a few days, but I was a little leery about putting any sensitive information on my "new server" without a sensible backup, as the hard drive has been known to die on me spontaneously.

So I wanted to find a use for this old derelict, yet without any worry about losing any critical data. So what was I to do?

After some thought, the answer came clear to me -- and it was something I have wanted to do for more than 7 years, yet was not feasible until this point.

Which was install Linux, and use it for kicks and giggles. So last week, I downloaded a disk image of Ubuntu Edgy Eft (which is the last version to support Power PC), and rather quickly, had it running on my old 800MHz iBook in very little time.

Why? Because I can.

By now, you should have noticed the Flickr link on the sidebar. I finally broke down and signed up. Actually the true reason I signed up was because I had a couple pictures on Yahoo! photos that were going to get deleted unless I transferred them to a new service, as Yahoo! was going to discontinue offering their photo service.

Now that I have signed up for a Flickr account, everybody who had used it has now migrated to some other service. It seems that I am receiving a some invites to join the latest flavor of the month: Facebook.