New desk and resolutions

I built a new desk during some time off before starting a new job, although it's not quite finished, I did make it to my own requirements. Funny how I never expected to need room for three laptops and associated crap, but I did today when I spent the day working from home...

Never enough room?

A New Years resolution? To update my blog(s) more, try to do some more work on my UAV thing and projects generally (better balance with family/bike/studies). I've left most of the bike stuff at Adventure Bike Rider forum and not posted much here, but that may change depending how I feel...

Old laptops

I had an old laptop that was chugging under XP and I was half thinking of using it for a future desktop fab project. A friend suggested and supplied a Ubuntu installation CD, which installed without hassle (I don't really have any Linux experience). It detected my Wi-Fi network and connected remarkably easily too (better than Windows). I've not had chance to look at it any closer yet.

I've also taken another old laptop off the hands of a colleague, "free to a good home" and it's running XP fairly well. It came with working wireless and I'm thinking of maybe turning it into a large digital picture frame.

So many projects, so little time...