My ankle has been hurting big time this week 🙁 I overdid the ‘gradually put weight onto the ankle’ last weekend (read that as ‘tried to walk without crutches’) and so Sunday and Monday I was in agony. I was back to the hospital on Tuesday and the doctor said it was kinda usual to get pain, but I was to take it easier and make sure I elevate the ankle when it starts hurting…so I’ve had it elevated for 2 days now and it STILL hurts 😐

On a brighter note – I finally upgraded my PC…not too much mind – I went from the old 800mHz machine to a 1200mHz beast. Not too much of a difference huh? but it’s all I need for now 😆

I have no idea why people need these multi gHz processors when all that most of them do is surf the net and read email. I can understand how gamers need fast processors, graphics cards, and memory packed out. For me, all I do is program a bit, and use Illustrator CS and Xara3D to produce some interesting mobile phone wallpapers, so my ‘baby’ processor (probably 5 years old or so?) is fine for that, and my PC is maxed with memory (1GB ram) and has plenty of hard drive space (1 x 120GB and 1 x 250GB drive) as well as a DVD Writer so I’m happy with it. Of course, it runs a lot faster than the newer store bought (read: ‘full of bloatware’) machines.

The bottom line is: While people upgrade all the time, their older hardware is fine for regular use – and the older hardware is perfect for recycling as Linux servers – Linux runs great on my old 233mHz PC…