I’m reformatting my hard drive and installing WinXP and Ubuntu! No more Win98SE Chicago kernel for meeee! (It’s mainly been laziness and conservatism that has kept me on it; finally it’s too much to bear.) Wish me good luck…hopefully my computer will be functioning again by tonight! Well, installing OSs isn’t that difficult…it’s the drivers that will get you.

Y’know, for all the bad rap that Microsoft gets, a lot of its work is pretty good. The problem is that their software works too hard at being program- and user-friendly. I’d elaborate but I’m going to be rather busy for the next several hours. Perhaps I’ll continue at some later date.

Thanks again to Patrick for lending me a nice big external hard drive on which I have backed up all my files.