Near death, and rebirth

I forgot the username and password for this blog, and for a month, it seemed all was lost. Then I discovered I could just have all of that sent to me by e-mail, and now the blog is saved.

Today was my last day of work at Staples Business Depot. I am now free from the wretched clutches of retail, and I am no longer obligated to talk about Microsoft products as though they are anything other than highway robbery, or amoral in licensing methodology.

On my home computer, I use Linux, Firefox, Pidgin, XChat, OpenOffice, and Wine. With the powers of these combined, I can and do do everything I want and need from my computing experience, and these are all totally free programs.

What did I do at Staples?

I lied to people. I told them that windows was nice and efficient (It's annoying and a resource hog), and well worth the couple hundred bucks to get it(Linux is better, more secure, more fun, and it's free). I told them that Microsoft Office was of a very good value (Open Office does the exact same stuff, and it's free). I told them that this one version of Norton Antivirus can be installed on, wait for it, 3 computers!! (All free software can be installed however many times you want)!

But no longer. I can now regain what was lost... What was taken by me by the necessity of work and of supporting my education. From here on forward, I shall be completely honest. Afterall, this is the internet! What else would I be?

This is the most important part of todays post:

With my return to honest society at hand, I request the readers feel free to take advantage of this, and ask me any question you can think of. I promise I'll answer it truthfully... Albeit not necessarily completely. Go!