Cruisin' along

Obviously, I'm not exactly setting the world on fire via blog entries.  But work has kept me tied up, and by the time I'm done for the evening, my brain feel it's taken on the consistency of low-grade tapioca, so...

A quick note:  I have been getting yeoman service out of Bodhi running on the T400 here.  In fact, I've not even touched the Macbook this entire week.  LibreOffice and Dia have handled all my needs for work.

Ah, a quick program note:  This is actually my first official go round with Dia, and I've been very impressed with it.  I'd started to install it on the Mac a while back, while working on another project.  Prior to this, I'd made use of the excellent drawing module in the equally excellent AppleWorks 6.  (Which is reason #5357 why I will not upgrade to OS X 10.7 nor 10.8:  No Rosetta.  Snow Leopard rules!)  However, I'd all but forgotten about Dia, until I noticed it was installed on my Saluki setup.  I played with it there, and one thing lead to another...

Which sort of segues into something I've been thinking about this evening, not using my Puppy installs for anything.  I could easily have used the copy of Dia in Saluki to do my diagramming, but I didn't.  I downloaded it to Bodhi, on the hard drive.  I'm beginning to think I'm a bit biased towards what's on the hard drive, over what's on any solid state drive...

I almost never do anything productive with my USB software setups, other than firing them up and going online.  (Just as I'm doing with FatDog64 right now.)  The closest I've come so far was in PhatSlacko last night, when I mounted the T400's hard drive to pull up some image files I wanted to check.  And I never have mounted my USBs on any systems other than my own.

I really need to put these things to use for real work.  They're too good to simply be reduced to little solid state curios.  Hey Puppy Linux World  swears by Puppy Linux for everyday work.  Why shouldn't I?

And that leads to my last segue for the evening, a quick YouTube jaunt.  I was browsing this evening, and ran across another interesting (at least to me) site.  The young lady goes by name SuperFreckleLand, and she has some definitely strong opinions on tech, gaming, etc.  (I haven't watched a lot of her stuff, yet, though I did catch the one with her opinion on the perceived pomposity of laptops.  Interesting and amusing.  Check her out.

And I'm off.  It's late, and I really need to shut the computer down for the evening...