This past Christmas, as a present from my fiance, I was given a laptop. What a wonderful gift as I have never had one. My goal was to get a Macbook but it was a little pricier than we wanted to pay. Maybe next time! Ever since I’ve had the laptop I have had a dream to get Vista and Ubuntu to work as a nice dual boot setup. Vista is great but I do rails programming where I would like to have console access built in and Cygwin just doesn’t like to play nice. So I download the handy dandy Ubuntu disk and away I go. Previously when I’ve used live CD’s there has been no...

So I’ve decided to go back to school. Yeah, yeah I know…big deal right? Well it is for me! I haven’t been to school in almost ten years. Yikes, it still sounds weird to say that. Anyway, I’m going to take some classes at night and hope to eventually get a degree. Elgin Community College is where I decided to go. They have limited classes in what I was looking for but it will do to start. So far I really like it. Business and Database Programming are what I am enrolled in. Both classes so far seem to be on the easier side but time will tell as it was only the first...