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Touched down in portland :)

On the plane, its cute!

I’m traveling with an old toshiba satelitte. It is prone to bouts of massive performance degredation, meaning it often runs slower than … well… something slow. Anyways, I think I’ve finally cracked it. It seems that when the BIOS is setup to run the harddrive in “enhanced” mode it actually seems to mean “enhanced suck” mode. Setting it to normal turns what feels like a 15 year old laptop into the 5 year old laptop it really is!

It’s also amazing what slow harddrive access speeds will do to trash your whole system performance.

Cleared customs. Lemon danish and a 2 hour wait now.

At the airport. Waiting for customs.

Picked up my new glasses.

So, I’m leaving tomorrow morning for a month to Mexico. I’m excited and aprehensive as to be expected, but I think I’m in good shape (ie. packed etc).

Anyways, because I’m such a public fellow, it should be pretty easy to follow my progress. You can get up to the minute updates when I can make them directly from my twitter account at twitter.com/dan_ballard. Usually within half an hour twitter updates will then show up here on the site, plus I’ll probably make the occasional update directly to the site when internet is available. So if you want all my travel stories etc, you can subscribe to the site RSS feed. If you’re on LJ, of course all of this will still be pushed there, so fear not, you get the full Dan vacation experience.

For those of you who could care less about my travel exploits and are just interested in my Linux exploits or what not, I’ve first requested Planet Larry change my feed to a Linux only one for the duration of the trip and you can do the same. Try subscribing to mindstab.net/wordpress/archives/tag/linux/feed to get only Linux stuff.

Ok, wish me luck, my flight is at 7am Wednesday morning.

Testing