Two steps in the right direction

For a long time I've been trying to read more books in English other than those that have programming code or a technical subject. I remember reading quite a few books when I was in School in my junior and senior year back in Bolivia. Colegio San Agustin Por Siempre!! I remember enjoying reading those books, most of them were from Bolivian writers as well as some from Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa . By the time my nephew left after the Xmas holidays I decided to start reading more, I didn't know where to start so I thought that trying to pick up a book that I always wanted to read but never had the chance was a good idea. So I grabed myself a copy of 1984 ( George Orwell) and started reading it and so far I find it quite interesting, if anything reading fiction is waking up my imagination and my passion for the written word. Then a couple days ago I read "Chasing the Rainbow of a Thousand Books" from the WashingtonPost, I have to say that the article inspired me and at the same time brought memories from those years in high school. That same day I went my son to the library to pick up "The Cat in the Hat", Bob the Builder(DVD) and "One hundred years of Solitude" (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) . I now find myself going to bed reading either 1984 or 100 years. Is something that didn't happen for a looooong time but now that I started I don't plan to stop after these two books.

I'm a PLTB...

Today while reading the FullAsaGoog List I found a blog entry from Nick Tong talking about the type of programmer he is, according to the test presented here Doolwind's Programmer Personality Test. I obviously had to take the test and my result says I'm a PLTB kind of programmer.
Your programmer personality type is: PLTB You're a Planner. You may be slow, but you'll usually find the best solution. If something's worth doing, it's worth doing right. You like coding at a Low level. You're from the old school of programming and believe that you should have an intimate relationship with the computer. You don't mind juggling registers around and spending hours getting a 5% performance increase in an algorithm. You work best in a Team. A good group is better than the sum of it's parts. The only thing better than a genius programmer is a cohesive group of genius programmers. You are a liBeral programmer. Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as freely as possible to help simplify the task. We're not writing on paper anymore so we can take up as much room as we need.

Linux is costing me $25.35 for now

I know it's been quite a long time since I don't write anything. Between preparing for my kids birthday party, cancelling due to snow and then resetting the house for a second birthday party we haven't had much time to sit in front of the computer. That and the fact that I didn't have a monitor for the Linux PC because I returned the monitor to my parents to build the second Edubuntu box. Well I finally got a monitor from Craigslist.com for $25 bucks. So far the whole computer has cost me, well $25 bucks. I got the PC from work when they were getting rid of a few PIII, the keyboard and mouse I got from my own scrap box, where I keep everything computer related, from tiny screws to Hard drives, CDROMS and even a DVD Writer. The initial network connection was, again, borrowed from my parents ;) . It was a Linksys External USB wireless adapter, now that I have returned all that I ran a cable from the main router in the house to the Linux box ( about 15 feet away). The best part of all, the software cost me about 35 cents. I'm just taking into consideration the cost of the CD where I burned the Edubuntu Image. Not bad, really not bad for a system that is great to play and work with. I have decided to reinstall Edubuntu from scratch on the same box, this time I'll pay more attention to all steps and probably write about the whole thing. The first time was a great exploring experience, but this time I'd really like to know what goes on as part of the installation. With some luck I'll be doing the third installation tonight.