Last blog from Tampere

Today is 30th of March and I sit here in my Lukonmaki room which I am about to leave, on a Sempron powered desktop which is I am about to sell and writing a blog which I am about to post. It has been about 19 months in Tampere, an MS which is almost done and a job in Helsinki that I am about to start. Right now I came back after watching the movie 300 which I found to be okayish. Then me, Jon and Chienting had our chat and its only now, at 1:35 am that I sit on my pc writing this blog.

I think that once I move to Helsinki, I will miss the peace and quiet of Tampere and the joy of studying when you had absolutely nothing to do and most of all the good friends that I made in this city. But, as life moves on so shall we and this might be the first step, first proper step in my professional life even though I have worked for 3 years in the past.

The company that I am going to work in is Comeks and I will be working on the J2ME side of things. I have become a bit rusty and even though I tried to make my skills better, it will still take me a while to get up to speed to things that I had done before. I guess that hard work is the only available solution here.

With that, I should call it quits, hit the bed and hopefully get a nice sleep. Tomorrow me and Jon have some plans so that should be a bit of fun. So its time to say good bye and maybe next time when I write something, it will be on my new laptop.

A notebook in my life

I recently bought a notebook with the help of my good friend Mubeen, who bore an hour with me on Skype giving recommendations and adding the components as we went from site to site. It is of course his credit card that I am using to make the purchase, so I will be indebted to him for money for a few days and his help for life. This is what we settled for in the end:

PROCESSOR: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5200 (1.66GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB) OPERATING SYSTEM: Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic
LCD PANEL: 15.4 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen WXGA+ Display with TrueLife™ MEMORY: 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm
HARD DRIVE: 100GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
OPTICAL DRIVE: 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
VIDEO CARD: 256MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1400 HyperMemory™
WI-FI WIRELESS CARD: Dell Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini Card (54Mbps) BLUETOOTH WIRELESS: Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate)
SOUND OPTION: Integrated Audio
BATTERIES: 53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Network Card and Modem: Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem

Apart from this, I also bought a Samsonite's backpack for carrying this baby around. The bag had almost everything, a pocket for keeping mp3 player, cushioning, good straps and was only 24.99$ which brought it right in the affordability limit. The bag unfortunately had two colours, a rosey pink and a pumpkin orange. As the pink was out of the question, I settled for the orange one. Mubeen also introduced two sites which are very helpful. One is Nextag and the other one is eBags. Both had been very helpful in making this decision of mine. Here, you can see the bag:

After making my calculations, I found out that the entire laptop + bag and the delivery charges might take the amount for this thing up to 1100$ which is a steal if you change that to euros as then it sums upto 850 euros. Here, a laptop with the same qualities will be on the 1200+ euro range and will be of some totally useless company like HP and Acer. Its not to say that those companies are bad, its just that, they do not stand a chance when we talk about Dell. My opinion and that of my friends has been that Dell always offers best value for price and I stick to that still. now the only thing that remains is to hold that notebook in my hand and test its capabilities.

And yet, I might switch again...

Time and again friends of mine have complained that vox does not provide the ability to write comments on my blogs. That really is a shame because I really like the layout, well almost everything about vox. I am experimenting with blogspot to see if it allows me to change the template to look a bit like how it does on Vox. that can be done by changing the template using HTML ... a thing that I do not really want to do.

Why the hell does blogspot, owned by google, does not allow an easy to change blog interface? Google has really disappointed me.