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I got my laptop working again! I decided to order a free cd of the latest Ubuntu version, and I had a wild idea: let’s see if I can simply reinstall the operating system. Well guess what — it worked! I’m posting from it now.

What I don’t know is what mysterious force wiped the previous version of the OS off my system in the first place. When I was reinstalling the setup told me “there is no operating system installed on this computer.” Ulp. So that’s a lesson to me: anything important where I need to save stuff will be done on my desktop — I’ll just use the laptop for web surfing and internet posting and so on.

Update: the fugly Linux fonts aren’t as ugly as they used to be — or maybe the font-smoothing is working better. But they are still just the plain basic fonts, as good a curb on designing frenzy as any.

PS: the message I’ve put above the content will go away in a few days. I was getting some “WTF?” questions about where the rest of the posts went on the front page.

I dunno. I just can’t bring myself to get upset at the First Couple’s Halloween activities. So he didn’t wear a costume and Michelle did. Or maybe he was wearing a costume — one of those non-costume “I’m ironically dressed as a normal person” costumes. So what? Usually just about everything the Obamas do set my teeth on edge, but in this instance? Not so much.

It’s done! What a pain in the ass that was. I screwed up the first time and had to delete everything and start over. Just to be on the safe side I even set up a new database. Anyway, the new blog is installed, in the main root like I wanted, with all the other files safe and sound in a folder. Go, me. Now all I have to do is install a bunch of themes and plugins and set up content…zzzzzzzzzzzzz….