I open firefox. I need to search something up in google. As I open google's homepage I notice something is not right anymore about it. I take a glance around and yet still, something is tugging at the back of my head. Something is not right here. I enter the search terms, and recieve my text based results. I wanted images, so I mosey my mouse over... HEY! WHERE DID THE IMAGES LINK GO??? I panic, searching the page franticly, until I notice a small bar at the top of the screen. I squint my eyes and realize something. This bar has the Images as well as other links button.
Screenshot
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/travist120/GoogleNobar.png
Eww... Google! Please put it back! I don't like the new you!!

I finally got my Sidekick to work. Oh the beauty of it all! Of course, I got it to work about a week ago, I just been having so much fun with it that I forgot to post that I did indeed fix it. It turns out I was supposed to press the menu button + l and then it worked. You can imagine the anger that was boiled deep below me when I found that out! But all is well and worth it I guess. I recently upgraded the mini SD card that came with it from a measly 64mb to a mediocre 512mb. Let me tell you, if you get a sidekick then definantly step up the memory. I also went to office depot and got me a bluetooth wireless headset. Of course I didn't need it, but I still loved the idea that you can talk without hands or wires. Now of course, I am guessing that even the travelling business man gets some odd looks when out of nowhere you start talking to yourself. What makes it even worse is the fact that my hair is so long that it completely covers the module its self, thus making everybody think that I just escaped from the loony bin. Oh and by the way, I typed this entire thing on my sidekick 3 while listening to Linkin Park's cd "Hybrid Theory"
What an amazing phone.

Ok, I know I am impatient. But this is ridiculous.

I had my phone broken recently, so instead of sticking with Sprint. I got T-Mobile. Looking around on their website, I found the coolest looking phone I could find. And lo' and behold! I found the Sidekick 3. I ordered from their website, and got the "Ship overnight" option.

That was on Thursday.

Tuesday, my phone comes in. I frantically tear open the box and find my sweet phone waiting for me. I plug in the battery and boot up the phone, the menu screen pops up and I try to scroll, but with no avail.

Instead, I get "Waiting for activation"

"Ok" I say to myself. "This shouldn't take too long"

3 hours later...

"This is taking too long!" I unplug the battery from the phone, plug it back in, and it goes through the same sequence of events as I first did it: Boot up, Menu, "Awaiting activation"

At 11:00 at night, I got a phone call from my friend. ON THE SIDEKICK! "Awaiting activation my butt!" I scream. I turned off the phone after I finished my call
-Boot up
-Menu
-Hell

Now I sit here, typing this message out. Still watching the little progress bar move from side to side on my brand new phone.

Through the many years of oddities and wonders, I have never come across a linux distro that could fit my computing needs. Distro after distro, I would find something else wrong. The usual case was that not one distribution could easily be configured to use my Linksys card. With no access to the internet, and no easy way of doing things without a trip to the ever so confusing NdisWrapper. I backed away.

Until I met Ubuntu 7.04

It was love at first site. Quickly I downloaded the beta version, ran a checksum on the file and burned it to CD. I shut off my computer, plopped in the cd as the computer was booting up and began to shake with glee.

The congos went off and I saw the application start up menu come into view, then fade away. I noticed two little bulbs in the right hand top corner of the screen. One bulb turned green for an approximate 3 seconds, followed by the bulb diagonal from it turning green. "You are now connected." I almost peed! But then there was a cheeky little devil. Turns out the hard drive I was using had some bad sectors on it, and my power supply wasn't sending juice to a slave drive. That little error I could never resolve, and I was in depression for several days due to the unsurmountable amounts of time spent trying to get it to work.

Finally, an idea. I opened up the case of my computer and unplugged the CD-RW drive (I have a USB DVD-RW drive that also burns CD's so I didn't really need it anyway.) I plugged the power into the secondary hard drive. Booted into Ubuntu 7.04. AND INSTALLED IT WITHOUT A HITCH!!!

Now, I have had my computer taken away from my parents (15 year olds never learn do they?) and am excited because now... I have the Official Release of Ubuntu 7.04