When I walked into the house after spending the Labor Day weekend in Prescott, I heard a clicking noise coming from my office. Bad news — my computer’s hard drive had died.<\/p>\n
Most of my important information and data was backed up, but I still had to reinstall Windows and reinstall all the programs I had been running. <\/p>\n
Since I have to start over again, I have decided to try to live in the open source world as much as possible. Unfortunately, I can’t get along without Windows quite yet. But I don’t need MS Office; I’ll use Open Office exclusively instead. <\/p>\n
I don’t need Outlook; Thunderbird is a better mail program. <\/p>\n
And I don’t even have to synch my Palm phone with Outlook; I can use the Palm Desktop that came with the phone.<\/p>\n
It’s kind of like moving Mom to a new apartment this weekend. It’s a lot of work, but it’s also an opportunity to get rid of stuff you don’t need and start fresh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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