Flipping about

It's been a rather nice day here, if a bit windy and cold.  A very good day to just get out and waste a day.  Which I did, quite effeciently.

I did drip the T400 off at the Computer-Shop-Across-the-River.  Had a nice chat with the owner, who took the time out from the absolute stack of computers in the queue to be worked on to talk.  They're a nice bunch, and I feel quite safe leaving one of my toys with them to be worked on.

Other than that...

I had the Acer Aspire out, and ran the battery down watching "The Tek" on YouTube.  (Interesting bunch there, too.  I like the oddball humor.  Check them out.  And, as a disclaimer, I have no connection to them.  Just find some of their stuff interesting.)  A couple hours of using Bodhi for the evening.

And I'm now using CrunchBang on the T60.  (And no, I don't feel hip enough to use the '#!' icon just yet.  I'm not that big of a CrunchBang user, just yet.)  Flipping through the various distros I have up/running sort of keeps me limber, not letting me get locked into one or the other.

It does feel odd, going from distro to distro, especially as I read/watch various reviews online.  The dichotomies that I run across surprised me.  In one review of Bodhi, the reviewer refers to it as more suitable for "power users" because of its massive customizability.  In another, the reviewer seems to say Bodhi is more suitable for "noobs", because of it's massive customizability...  Reviewers tend to sing the praises of the utter stability of CrunchBang; general users on forums tend to go on about CrunchBang's apparent reputation for eating users if they turn their backs on their computers...

And everybody hates Ubuntu.  Because it's popular.  And that's bad.  Because...uhmmm....  Well, because!

Fascinating.

I was just looking at the blog stats, and I am both fascinated and grateful for the spread of readers I've been getting.  Folks from all over the world, which I find very gratifying.  Thanks for stopping by!  As I said a few posts ago, I hope my ramblings are least a little distracting from the day to day.

One of these days, I might even try to be a bit coherent in what I'm going on about!  ;-)

I was fascinated to see that someone hit the site using Windows NT (Welcome!), which was separated out from the general "Windows" category.  Interesting that.  Kinda sad that my beloved Macs are in the distinct minority.  But I'm glad that all the folks, using whatever hardware/software they like.

I do get a little grumpy and fixated at times.  But, in the end, I take a cue from a comment Harlan Ellison made in one of his commentaries way back when.  Use what you're comfortable with.  (OK, he didn't say it that way, and it was in a piece lambasting the types who abuse the anonymity of the Internet, but hey...)

Hope everyone enjoys the weekend!  I'm off the waste the rest of the day!