Month: November 2009

I like smaller and smaller machines. I’m now enjoying the use of an eeepc, the 1000hg. It has inbuilt 3g modem and a 4.5hr battery life.

It’s a nice change to use a small laptop because it does the basic things. It allows me to tweet, read e-mail and fail at Nanowrimo ;-).

The keyboard is fast for typing. I was able to type over 20,000 words without finding the keyboard to be a hindrance. It’s not the smallest of keyboards, nor the biggest, but it does fit my fingers perfectly.

The screen is fine most of the time. It is slightly too small for a few web apps and programs. A few times I’ve gone to a page or used a program which could not cope with the vertical resolution of such a screen. As a result I do need to think about which applications and websites I visit.

I also tested seesmic for windows on this machine and that worked well. No crashes, no slowing down the system. I had it running for over 24hrs in between sleep modes and such without the hint of a problem.

So far I like the small laptop. It hasn’t fallen into a corner like the 900. This one has actually been used. We’ll see when I feel the need for a larger machine once more. For now though this is fine.

I haven’t blogged in a few months but I have been tweeting, and working full time, and I’m attempting Nanowrimo once again this year.

Last year the process was easier as I had a lot of free time. This year I need to make time.

I did get to over 20,000 words but inspiration is slower to come. The meetups are still going on. We’ve had two in Lausanne already, one in Zurich, one in Bern and the next will be in Basel. I think I’ll skip Basel as I have some more urgent projects to finish first.

Did I mention over 1.3 billion words have been logged for Nanowrimo? That’s after 18 days of writing.