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I suppose I won't be done building the new computer until I officially remove the old one from the iTunes registry. Nonetheless, it's good to be back online with much updated technology (Asus motherboard, Pentium dual-core, Western Digital "Jaguar" and Seagate "Barracuda" drives, etc., also a color correct LaCie 320 monitor).
The medium hasn't been the message for at least a decade and neither will be the computing system or the Internet.
Among the thoughts driving this round, which included my building the "box" from scratch, was to get the technology set to let me do the things I do while leaving room to upgrade to, say, 64-bit applications when, if ever, that makes sense for my small enterprise.
Also, the expanded competence in building and administering the unit should abet upgrades within the system, that as opposed to buying a new box off the retail shelf every three or four years.
Who thought photography (or poetry) would ever become so expensive.
All in all, it's done.
I'd like to say the world seems not to have changed much during my month-long absence from the Internet (the new build was inspired by a monitor that crapped out after about 15 minutes of use plus mechanical equipment failure on the motherboard in the Athlon 64 box), but it has changed remarkably.
Pervez Musharraf, for one thing, has taken to wearing mufti full-time (many had refused to see that coming).
Somalia has a new Prime Minister.
Life in Gaza stinks more by the week, especially for those with but loose interest in politics and religion, which leaves suffering without recourse to sense of any kind--to others, of course, what Gaza suffers matches life in war zones around the world in the way of reduced public services and increased rates of disease and mortality.
One hopes for change.
One always does.
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