Here lies the motto

I became an Internet hermit these last few weeks. There were no social applications for me, although I did keep an eye on my Google Reader. I’m not strong enough to give that up, but I only really lurked.

This was due partly to my feeling I was getting a little too tied in to these online networks, partly because I was lazy, and partly because my home computer recently died. After dragging my desktop over to a friend’s for investigation, the problem turned out to be the power supply. It’s annoying, but it could’ve been much worse, so I’ll try not to complain too much about that.

Thankfully, I conveniently bought a wee netbook just before the desktop died – an HP Mini 1030NR. I’ll post photos of how little and shiny it is later. It’ll be perfect for travel, and I got a smokin’ deal on it (refurbished for CAD$299), so I’m quite happy with it.

Beyond travel, my ulterior motive was to use this new, easily-mobile machine to motivate myself to write more. We’ll see how that actually pans out, though.