How far to travel

With the price of diesel now at a low $4.36 (yeah still about $3.00 too much, danged thieves!) I'm wondering how far folks are willing to travel to work, compete or watch a show? As a photographer and with reciepts down and with more competition form the "Soccer" moms selling really bad prints for $.05 (yes 5 cents has been reported to me) I'm not willing to go more than three hours IF the hotel rooms are cheap! Is that just me?



ps. and yes I do need a camper or a trailer!

IBM Announces "Non-Windows" Sytems

IBM in cooperation with Red Hat (Fedora Project), Novell (SuSE) and Ubunutu have announced a new campaign to advertise "Microsoft-free personal computing choices."While this is not a first attempt at a Windows Free environment it is the first time I can remember such a large consortium coming together and being anchored by a large corporation like IBM surely should have some effect.

As a Microsoft trained professional I can see numerous reason why this is happening, but number 1 on that hit parade is Vista, which leaves much to be desired! While I use it at work and have little issues, I do know running two pigs like Vista and Adobe CS3 sure kicks me in the shins when I have them both going full bore!

One question though, what will IBM do with it's Linux project called Yellow Dog? hmmm

gone for a while

I'm sorry I've been gone so long! I've switched jobs kind of. While I'm still running Double P Tack, the local branch of the University of New Mexico has hired me as a User System Analyst III. So I basically get to show people how to run projectors, build technology teaching systems and do some training when all else fails. Not a bad job and only 11 miles from home. Though my hours are a little wacky. So I hope you all are kicking tail and taking names, I should be paroled to a regular schedule soon.