. . . the Penguins stole my sanity . . . but happily I have a lovely Linux box of the Ubuntu flavour. Last summer Steve reached the, “I’ve had it with W$XP”. He purchased a heavy-duty and now hard-working Mac. This left me with no CS2 software for my W2K machine. I suppose I could have dug up some replacement software, but being faced with no further support for my T&T W2K, having buckets of old PC cards and drives (and feeling that the newer versions of W$ were evil,) — I decided to make the jump to Linux with Ubuntu.

Gulp, leaving my geekly safety net behind at a major Mac/Linux divide . . .mind numbingly terrifying! So I stripped down my box, eliminated excess W$ software, rounded up spare drives and practised the mantra, “Google is my friend, Google is my friend!” The Ubuntu community support has been phenomenal; these hard working volunteers deserve kudos. Without them my baby steps into Linux might have been a short one or at least very painful.

Now all I need is a Linux Penguin key to replace the Windows key on my teeny keyboard
So if you have been wondering what happened to me I’ve been playing with my ‘puters innards, letting dogs out, letting dogs in . . . and stitching, of course, it takes a lot to keep me from stitching!