Dear readers,

I had more than a year and a half to think about this post and here it goes…

… I’m in front of my notebook (Acer eMachines E510); listening to “Poets of the Fall – Carnival of Rust” (embedded below); trying to ignore the insane high temperature from this random campus room and I have (again) no idea where to start… emotions – too many of them; ideas – soon to come; people – each of them unique; events – funny or serious ones… so the conclusion: this blog post = my first personal blog post = just some random thoughts.

1. I’m very curious how and why the term of “notebook” was created. After all, my humble opinion is that they are all laptops (as in they sit on your “lap” while you do your online “top” stuff) (just googled it – even the Wikipedia page for “notebook” redirects to, guess what, “laptop”).

2. I hated Ubuntu in my first two weeks of using it. Two infuriating weeks. I disliked  Windows for every blue screen it gave me (and they were like a lot of them during my more than 10 years of usage) (I also heard that they are, kind of, history with that Windows 7 coming). But I have never imagined that a software will give me real headaches. I like challenges. It took me two weeks to calm down and get used to it (the fact that is was free, that it was NOT Windows and that there is a forum topic on every problem I encountered or I will encounter definitely helped). Took me 7 months to find out how to make the wireless work; the microphone still disabled and I have no idea if that cool incorporated camera works – almost a year of daily Ubuntu doing stuff – I’m a fan of it. I’m courious to see if things will change with that Google OS announced to come in a year or so!

3. I found out about “Poets of the fall” from an eRepublik citizen (one wish: YouTube, please introduce auto-replay in videos!). I considered them nice, interesting and something new. But I definitely added them to my forever preferences list on the day of the elections. On that day, I have decided that I will not look at the results (I later find out that I was the leading candidate for the presidency of Romania all that day and that I lost in the last hour with 11 votes). So, what to do you for 24 hours in order not to check on the elections. Simple: chat with my party president and write the strategy for both situations: me becoming president or losing the elections (and all of that in the same time with listening “Poets of the fall” over and over and over again).

4. And here are some other random ideas (which I wish to expand in future blog posts or never): I deleted my Yahoo account, I dislike hi5, I wish Facebook blows up, I like Twitter, I love eRepublik, I’m a fan of Blizzard (Diablo is my favorite not web-based game); I like simple services and beer…

(to be continued… or not…)

Best regards,

Geo (Belea2008).

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