I think I've mentioned before that I installed Ubuntu Linux OS on my old laptop to kill a bit of time and learn a bit. Since than I'm using my P3 500Mhz Ubuntu laptop more than my P4 2.4GHZ windows laptop. I'm completely impressed with ubuntu. I still didn't get sound in skype working even though I followed many HOWTOs without success.

If windows on my main machine would start screwing up than windows would go out of the window very quickly. I love that everything is changeable in linux and you can make it look the way it suits you and you don't have to worry about viruses and spyware etc. Once it boots up there is no rubbish working in the bacground and even my P3 500Mhz laptop is perfectly usable for the day to day stuff. If I was to dedicate an old computer for internet only than this would be my first choice. Also like that with the live CD you can try it on to see if its gonna work without being afraid that it will chage something on your windows system as the live cd runs completely from a cd and doesn't install anything on your hard drive.

I love the way my desktop looks

After hearing all the horror stories about how difficult it is to get your hardware working in linux I was bit worried but putting Ubuntu on my PC was almost easier than windows. It recognised all my hardware without a need for a single driver. That never happened to me with windows. In Win i need a driver for most of my USB connected stuff.

Since I didn't wanna waste a lot of time installing all the necessary software I let the Automatix script do the work for me and uoalaaa perfectly functional PC came at the end - with 3rd party dvd, mp3 codecs, media player that plays just about every media file you can think of etc. Even my ipod got recognized as soon as i pluged it in. Impressive.

I spend bit of time tweaking things and playing around but that mainly because I enjoy it and with the help of the www.ubuntuforums.org it was all possible.

If my windows PC had a FAT32 formated hard drive ubuntu would be on it long time ago. Pity I'm too lazy to back up everything and reformat part of HDD. At the end my win pc is working fine so there is no need but there will be  a day when I'll be windows free.

I was suppose to start my last cycle of chemo yesterday. My blood count is low so i'm waiting for it to improve and maybe will go in tomorrow, thats if they have a bed available, which I doubt.

I need to go for another blood test today. I'm really glad that the nurse in my GP surgery is cool an she takes me in whenever i need so i don't have to go to hospital and wait forever. I wasn't really feeling like going to hospital anyway so i was glad they didn't want me :-)

I also managed to screw up my leg (the one thats got more metal than bones in it) while i was having a beer or two last week. I wasn't even drunk yet. Hopefully I didn't damage anything because I got quite a big bruise behind my metal knee. 

Hmm, I'm about 2 weeks after my 2nd last chemo and I'm feeling ok again. I was having all sorts of pains and I don't wanna even think about what's going on inside me but the chemo side effects are wearing off again and I felt good enough today to excercise again. I need to start working out a bit again because my belly is growing and I'm getting very lazy. My doctor will call it chronic tiredness from chemo but I need to get into bit of shape for what is suppose to be my last summer.

I'm looking forward to have the last cycle of chemo but at the same time I'm worried as things are suppose to start growing again soon after. It's not the same as the first time, couple years back, when I thought that I finished chemo and thats it i'm cured and everything is gonna go back to normal. I don't even know what is normal anymore. 

Everytime I feel pain in my lungs I'm freaking out a bit. There is so many things I should sort out like my will and list of things that will need  to be done when I'm unable to do them but I still feel pretty good so I hope there will be time to do all that once I feel shit. Right now I don't feel like thinking about that at all. Everytime i see people on TV that are wasting away slowly it freaks me out. I hope that once I get too sick it will be quick. I've seen too many people die around me in hospital to know that is not very nice. I hope that my doctor is right and my metastases will block my arteries before they start blocking my airways. I definitely prefer hear attack from choking :-)

What a depressive post. I'm suprised because I feel very possitive today. Anyway, the show must go on...

I still feel like I haven't created anything worth while, that I'll be remembered by, except for some photographs. I thing I need to take my camera out bit more often these days, summer is comming and there should be some more interesting thngs around to take pics of. 

Well, I'm at home, the weather is pretty good but things are really annoying. Yesterday I was having all sorts of aches and pains all over and everything is falling out of my hands lately. Today there is something aching behind my non existent knee when I'm walking...

Yesterday wasn't a very good day. I got my post in the morning and find a penalty for leaving rubbish on the street with a copy of a postal package with my address as a proof. Well it got me right pissed off so I went on to a mission to talk to somebody. After a phone call and a visit to local council I received a phone call from them saying that the fine is for taking rubbish out of the flat on the wrong day. (inspector opened a bag and find whose the rubbish was etc.) That I could understand BUT

1. when we moved in here we asked the previous residents when to take rubbish out and was told it's being collected every day

2. I never take the rubbish out unless there are bags already there and since I can see they being picked up everyday I wasn't gonna check somewhere when is "our day" Anyway, it Wednesday, now i know. They said that they'll cancel the fine this time.

Hope they do. They seem to have a little rubbish campaign in London at the moment as it was also on BBC London news today. I also get annoyed by people that throw rubbish around or leave their bin bags outside for ever but I don't except paying fines for doing something that seemed to be acceptable for past 3 years while someone else was doing it... How am I suppose to find out which truck should be picking up my rubbish?

Anyway, that's my "rubbish" story.