My new Dell laptop

I recently bought a new Dell laptop.

Inspiron 1520
2 Ghz Core 2 Duo Proc
250 Gb SATA hard drive
2Gb 667 MHz DDR2 RAM
802.11b\g Wi-Fi
Bluetooth
2 Mega-pixel webcam


The laptop is fantastic and I love it. Unfortunatley it came with MS Windows Vista. My first move was to wipe Vista and replace it with Ubuntu Linux 7.10. Ubuntu looks fantastic and almost everything worked right out of the box. I think I have solutions to everything else.

Unfortunatley Dell have totally refused to refund the money for the unused Vista licence. However they did assure me that they working hard to meet my needs (just not the needs that I actually needed).

The blood is the blah blah blah.

Gave blood again today.
Kevin joined me.
It went well.
That is all.

2011 UK Census (surveillance of UK citizens made easy)

The 2011 UK census has been outsourced by the office of national statistics. One of the two companies in the final selection is Lockheed Martin. If they win the contract UK citizens will be legally obliged to fill out a detailed questionairre and then return it to an arms comapny that does 80% of its buisiness with the US Department of Defence. They also focus on serveillance and intelligence gathering to produce what they call "Integrated Threat Information".

Find out more here.

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