Thank you computer!

I mentioned that I have been playing computer games a little more. Something I hardly have the time to do. The reason is that a few weeks ago our desktop computer gave up the ghost and having no money for repairs I broke out the OLD Toshiba laptop. This is the computer which my parents bought for me in 2000 and saw me through my year in Germany, the last year of my degree and most of my PhD before the screen got so loose that I couldn't open it for fear of it falling off. The spec of this "beast" are as follow:

Pentium 3 500 MHz processor
128 Mb RAM
56.6 kb modem
DVD ROM drive
10 GB Hard Drive
Floppy Drive
D-Link 660+ Ethernet card

Well, thankfully it has a USB and PS2 port on the back so I was able to connect a mouse and keyboard as well as the monitor from the desktop. To the untrained eye it looks like I am at the desktop, especially as the laptop is on top of the box of the now dead desktop, however, I am running windows 98 and waiting patiently now and then whilst the computer "thinks" about my commands. I am extremely grateful however to have this and I marvel at the fact that it still works - Thank you Toshiba, thanks Mum and Dad and, I guess, thanks Bill Gates. So I return to my point - Starcraft. For those who know, just nod. Those who don't, well it is a game which was released in 1997/8 and is probably one of the greatest RTS (real time strategy) games ever released. It is basically building up a little force of men/aliens and kicking the other guys band of men/aliens into oblivion. Anyway it runs on like even the oldest machines (my current OLD laptop) and for nostalgia reasons I couldn't keep from playing it. Anyway I think I am weaning myself off of it and returning to normal life, however, I feel it is good to revisit the past sometimes (provided it is nothing too dangerous).

Stay tuned for more adventures soon!