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Curses, it’s back in the box for us!

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Curses, it's back in the box for us!
Photo-A-Day #1335

Over the past 7 years I have amassed a good deal of desk junk. No, not papers and notes and things like that. Nothing “work related” per se. No I have probably one of the most elaborate desk set ups in the entire office. If you can’t tell the theme, let me give you a hint “More Than Meets The Eye”.

I’m moving my desk to another building entirely. The other building has an entirely different feel, not so, how should I say this “laid back”. So on Friday I’m bringing in two plastic “bins” to pack up all of my toys. Then they will spend some time int he attic until such time as I either have my own office at home or at work or just someplace to put them back out. There is so much there, my Harley Pins (Which I may take with me), all my Transformers (into the bin with them), and many other things. Here are some more high res photos so you can really see what is going on on my desk.

The Whole thing The Left Edge The corner
The Corner Right of the Corner The Garage
And then there were the pez And some books

Grab Bag

The $98 laptop…

I was tipped off to this story about a $98 Laptop by Chad W. Smith. Chad is a blogger who I learned about through PPP and have been following his blog ever since. He makes some pretty interesting videos. Chad’s blog was the first one on which I read about this $98 laptop.

The Laptop is called the HiVision miniNote. It has a 7″ screen a new cheap MIPS based processor, WiFi, 1GB flash storage, it runs Linux, has 3 USB ports, Ethernet, SDHC card reader, audio in and out, voice-chat, skype, multi-tabbed Firefox browser support and Abiword for word processing. I watched a great video from Techvideoblog all about the notebook.

I think the miniNote is a great little one that I could use on a plane for writing blog posts and then publishing later. I could use it to listen to music or play movies that I may have stored on SD cards. AS SD cards allow more and more storage I could easily have 32GB of space on one SD card which would give me plenty of media space for a 3 hour flight. If HiVision would like to send me a test sample I’d take it all over and tell you all about it.