The beauty of my Dell netbook (bought it refurbished, a steal at $ 179) is that I don’t mind blowing it up on occasion, at least after I made a USB boot disk for my new Linux OS of choice (9.04 netbook remix), which is much better than Dell-ed up version of Linux that came pre-installed.
I’ve had to do this three times so far, since I can’t resist screwing around with things. I have but a wee solid state harddrive, so I keep all my documents on an SD disk that stays in the slot. That way, when my kernel panics or some other weirdness happens, I only have to download a new image from the NASA pic of the day site for my background, get rid of the games that came with the OS, and find a new blogging application, if I care to do so. This time around, I’m using Gnome Blog, which is fairly feature free and simple to use, thus far.
I just have to remember to keep the USB boot drive in the office.
Anyway, Gnome blog seems to be a keeper when I just want to add a quick note.