Yippee! Got myself a new Lappy!

Since I’m studying for the BSc Honors in IT at SLIIT, I had no choice but to move to a boarding place near the campus. After moving, all I had was my good ol’ ThinkPad laptop, which wasn’t exactly cutting-edge anymore 😛 I had my desktop PC at home, but moving that beast to the new place was too much hassle. So, I had to stick with my IBM ThinkPad for a few weeks until I could get a new laptop. I checked local dealers for a few models and quickly realized I’m too broke to buy an IBM ThinkPad, which, in my opinion, are overpriced in Sri Lanka. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think those Lenovo ThinkPads have the same durability as the old IBM ones. Any Lenovo users out there???

So, I decided to go with another brand “well-known for durability”, ASUS! Yep, luckily they had a new series of notebooks priced reasonably, considering the quality of ASUS products. There were cheaper HP and Acer laptops too, but I didn’t want anything other than ASUS since I’m such an ASUS fanboy 😀
I ended up buying the ASUS X51R series laptop with a Core Duo 2.0GHz processor. I even got a 7.5k discount from the Epsi guys (our local ASUS dealers) thanks to my BFAM Suchetha! 🙂

The first thing I did after getting back from Epsi was repartition the 120GB HDD, wiping out the evil proprietary OS from my precious laptop. While partitioning, I created one big (90GB) partition for /home and 1GB for swap. The rest was split into three more partitions: one for my primary distro and the other two for testing versions and betas.
So now I’m back on track, and my only problem is the lack of time. Not because SLIIT stuff is keeping me busy (actually, there’s not much to do these days, maybe because it’s the first semester), but because I have a ton of other things to tackle. As most of you have noticed, my blogs have been neglected over the past few months. I’d love to return to my old schedule of posting 10+ articles a week, but I don’t think I’ll have that much free time in the coming years 😦 So, I’ll aim to post at least once a week. It’s better than nothing, right??? 😀
~SeeJay

Celebrating 500 million Firefox downloads

In honor of the 500 million download mark, we’re celebrating by raising 500,000,000 grains of rice in one day to help feed the world’s poor. Since we’ve hit this milestone, it’s time to head over to freerice.com and try to push the day’s total past half a billion. This is just a glimpse of where Firefox is headed one day. Food for thought – or better yet, Food for Lives. If we reach 500 million grains of rice, that’s a direct contribution to feeding 25,000 people for a day! Donate now at http://freerice.com.

1/2 Billion Downloads Start: 02/21/2008 – 05:00 End: 02/21/2008 – 23:59 Timezone: ECT/GMT

Join the celebration at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/1424

Finished moving to the new domain ;)

Finally, it’s done! 😀 Yep, I’ve finished moving all my previous posts from the old blog to the new site. Phew! Now it’s time to add some widgets and give my identity to the blog 😉 Well, I had this idea to move to my own domain from wordpress.com, and now it’s done. Since this is a Blogger-hosted site, I can edit the layout without spending extra bucks, so here I am with my new style. Hope you all will like it 🙂 If you’ve ever read my previous WP blog(s), you might know I’m a big fan of Garland (the famous Drupal/WP theme). I did find the Blogger version of the Garland theme, but then I thought it’d be nice to switch things up 😀
OK, enough for now. I’ll be back with more boring news 😉
~SeeJay

PS: A big thanks goes to my friend Bud @ geekaholic.org for the awesome help with the new site 😉