Why so quiet?

I've been a bit quiet this week. Well I haven't, rather my blogging has.

And why is this?

Well a few reasons. Firstly work has been very busy and my mountain of todos has just grown and grown. But that is ok as it is all good stuff. Lots of exciting stuff (more on that soon).

Secondly, I have totally given into my geeky side and bought myself an Eee PC 901 20GB. Not only that but I practiced geekfu and immediately wiped Xandros Linux from it and installed Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron and even compiled my own driver modules for the networking. As Ian remarked yesterday this is me... a cautionary tale. It is true I am a geek. But ther is a method in my madness. Switching to the smaller Eees (I also have a 701) has made a substantial difference in my life.

How so? Well given that I have suffered from back and shoulder injuries caused (or at least exacerbated) by my luggable laptop, and that I recently snapped (yes... snapped!) one of the tendons in my right arm (following my recently campylobacta encounter) it became clear that if I didn't want to wheelchair myself in the near future then the likes of the Eee PC are the only way to go. The nature of my role is that I spend a lot of time on trains and occasionally in cars travelling from meeting to meeting, and I am always accompanied by a laptop of some description.

And it has worked - my back has never been better and I can at least, in part, attribute that to the lovely 1.2kg Eee 901 and 1kg Eee 701.

Anyway back to my actual blog purpose... I've been organising my thoughts and should hoepfully have a post or two this afternoon.