Dear Blog
In the past I had said that I could not vote for Obama because of his support of the 700 billion dollar bail out.
Well here is my delima.? Here in Oklahoma you cannot write in a person’s name for president, that disqualifies your whole ballet.? Oklahoma apparently only recognizes Republicans and Democrats.? So I can only choose between McCain and Obama.
Ok.? I think McCain is a good person, but I think Obama is a better, so I’ll have to vote for the better person, OBAMA.
But I’m telling you, they’re liars, both of them and neither one of them is the best candidate for president, but we get what we get and I have to vote for the least of two evils, and that would be Obama.
I’ve been goofing around.? After upgrading my computer, well you know I had downloaded the latest and greatest Linux I could find, burn it and install it because I could and so I did.
Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 4.whatever.? Well with tears in my eyes, broken hearted and a contrite spirit, in other words, I was crushed.? I couldn’t get it to work.? Either it couldn’t find my monitor or video card, I don’t know which because I couldn’t get in there to find out.? You know how the screen is so big, you can’t access the buttons in all the screens.? It was frustrating, but it looked nice.
I have an older copy.? A 32 bit Kubuntu 7.04 and it worked pretty good, I had good luck with it.? But it was a 32 bit and I have a 64 bit processor and so I wanted a 64 bit OS, until I discovered everything don’t work with a 64 bit OS and so now I want a 32 bit, kinda went around a circle there didn’t I.? That’s what I do, that’s how you learn.
So I installed that older copy, luckily it came with Firefox 2.something because their 3.something always crashes.? Then I got this message, would you like to upgrade to 7.10.? Oh man, the temptation was to great, I said, OK.? It worked, it was so cool.? So now I had 7.10 and I got it from 7.04, how cool is that.? Well, then it asked me would you like to upgrade to 8.04.? Heart be still, my finger trembled as it caressed the enter key and it all happened so fast, in the space of a TV commercial, behold, I have 8.04.? It didn’t give me KDE 4.something, I still have KDE 3.5 something.? Thepenguin must know that KDE 4 won’t work on my computer, that’s a pretty smart penguin, because it aint asking if I want KDS 4.
Two strange things happened.? It upgraded my firefox to 3.something and I thought oh no, it’s going to crash all the time.? But, it doesn’t, it hasn’t crashed yet, it’s been almost a week, unbelievable.? See it was Windows all the time – I knew it.
And the other strange thing, really not so strange, seems to happen a lot, my windows xp became unbootable.? And I thought about it.? If I try to fix windows xp I could loose my Linux.? Screw windows, I got Linux working and working good.? But you know, for us techie amateurs, if something is broken we have to fix it.? So I did, Ran the sort of reinstall windows fix thing and low and behold, windows didn’t steal the bootup and Linux was still there working, and hopefully they will live happily ever after, at least that’s the way it works in fairy tales.
So you know all that takes time.? Now, once again, I’m behind on my blog and have about 400 emails in my email box.? But, before I did anything else, I figure I should tell people, before the election that I’m voting for Obama.