My New Year's Resolution

Krakovianka wrote, "It's only when you have a whole, big, fresh year in front of you that big goals have room to fit into the plan."

How true that is. How else would I have mustered the courage to finally tackle something I've been meaning to do for years? My goal for this year (and I'm allowing myself all year) is to learn Linux and have a Linux OS (Ubuntu, maybe?) on my computer instead of Windows. I've already purchased two books and joined two Linux forums.

I like the concept of free quality education such as Ambleside Online, free texts of great classics like Project Gutenberg provides, art and poetry that can be accessed by the public without charge like what CGFA and The Poets' Corner post, open source software (like GIMP, Mozilla and OpenOffice) that does what it does more efficiently - so I feel a natural draw to Linux.

I'm not looking forward to the times ahead where I'm sure I'll be pulling my hair out because I can't figure something out!