Writing is Therapy
Notes about software and computers, and associated hardware and computer based devices.
A couple of years ago when I was moving away from Windows in my home computers, I saw a Dell advertisement for a Windows 10 laptop for under $200. I was intrigued because I thought it might be nice to have a Windows computer around the house to use for backup if I ever found … Read more
I don’t have advertisements on my blog. And I rarely make any attempt to sell or promote products or services here. So I won’t make an exception today. Nevertheless, when you find a product or service that is truly exceptional, and it stands the test of time and experience over and over, it would be … Read more
Xiwi, Xfce… what are you talking about? Well it has to be another exciting episode in the series of Chromebook updates. Recently Chrome pushed a major update to its Operating System (OS). It was a fantastic update because it brought all manor of Android applications to my Chromebook, happily making it into an Android Tablet, … Read more
I have an Acer R11 Chromebook. It has a quad-core Intel CPU. With 32 GB and a fairly unlimited Google Drive storage of 2 Terabytes it is a very nice laptop computer. For about the past year I have run the KDE distribution of Linux on it with good success. But as has been my … Read more
For Christmas I received a new ACER Aspire R11 Chromebook. It is pretty much the same size as my old Chromebook but the screen is a little larger, and it flips to become a full tablet, or it will stop along the way and become a presentation device. The audio from it is better, and … Read more
Happy New Year. It’s hard to believe. The past few months have flown by so fast at times it didn’t seem real. The weather in Northern Virginia, like the weather in so many places around the world, has been unusual this past season. It has been very warm and rainy. Christmas night I took my … Read more
Labor day came late this year, and the school system here started the kids back to school the day after the holiday. My wife’s college year started a week earlier. So now we are all back in the fall routine. The kids have cross country and school activities, we have church with its activities, and … Read more
I’ve been fidgeting with my website here, trying new things. And I was intrigued by a new WordPress Theme that came out. WordPress itself did a major update, and some things didn’t come instantly back to life as they had in previous automatic updates. So I fiddled for a while and brought it all back … Read more
Among the Newest of the New in the Linux World is Bodhi Ver 3.1 with its Moksha desktop. And while I think the team’s naming convention using names from the Buddhist Community can be confusing, their software is fantastic. The image here was captured from my cheap Chromebook after I downloaded the latest and updated … Read more
If you have read many of my blog entries you know I love to tinker with technology and computers. My efforts to leave Apple and Microsoft behind using Linux and Android instead, and switching to a Chromebook for my laptop computer, all have demonstrated my belief that if something ain’t broke you should fix it! … Read more