I found and appropriated a very small computer that was to be used in the Parks Department Kiosk project. This involved a kiosk that was to be placed in various places with County information. I wrote the whole thing, but the old Kiosks had screens that did not work with modern machines. The drivers were for Windows 98 and new ones weren’t available. We had to go with new kiosks. The old Kiosk with the new computer still sits in my cubicle (strategically placed so that passerbys have trouble reading my screen). The PC is a fairly nice one and only three years old. It has limited RAM, but I can live with it.

I formatted the disk and installed XP pro. I am in the process of updating it with software tools so I can actually use it for work. My old machine was declared officially dead by the Desk Top group and I am getting a new machine that has to be assemble and loaded with official software; that’s what’s taking so long. When it comes I will have two machines for work so I can do all kinds of nice things like debug on one machine and edit on another. When I worked at IBM I had five machines at once.

I miss my bookmarks most of all and I haven’t read my regular blogs in a week. I was also surprised to find that Lockheed stock took a big hit and my 401K lost around $10,000 while I wasn’t watching it.