Inspiron 1720

It has been a busy week. Got a ton of energy stats dumped on me to decipher, and that job just keeps getting bigger the more I understand. Also, I injured myself playing sport and back to handicap status again, and I might have been dumped on the phone. As emotionally taxing all this is, something good happened this week. I got my work laptop.

Now this was ordered through Dell, an interesting setup. Order online in Oz, send payment, then they build it in Asia, and send it back to Oz. Cheap business model except they lost payment. So we had to organise a search party to find the missing payment yet once resolved things proceeded smoothly.

Now this baby has got everything. Webcam, super fast processor (2.4 GHz for you techies), more RAM than my first computer and a NES (4GB), a huge half terabyte of hard drive space (I never thought I would need more than 30GB 3 years ago) bluray DVD watching capability, wireless, Bluetooth stuff, and it goes on. Windows Vista is interesting, not as impressed with it as some people I know, however it does have some cool features, particularly the search. Yet what I like most is the screen, yeah baby 17 inches. Check it out below.

Short words

Use them.

They are often Anglo-Saxon rather than Latin in origin. They are easy to spell and easy to understand. Thus prefer about to approximately, after to following, let to permit, but to however, use to utilise, make to manufacture, plant to facility, take part to participate, set up to establish, enough to sufficient, show to demonstrate and so on. Underdeveloped countries are often better described as poor. Substantive often means real or big.

“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.” (Winston Churchill)