12/30 Ubuntu Rocks!

I didn't get any sleep during the night so I sleep most of the morning.  Early afternoon, Siddarth returned with Nira Kapur, one of the Dakshinayan Board Members.   She has been a teacher in Delhi for 33 years and has a fascinating perspective and even better stories.  After a few minutes though, Siddarth breaks out the two donated laptops that Bhola picked up in Ranchi last week.  It was pretty funny because we all went silent as soon as we had some technology in front of us.  Turns out (Chance you are going to love this;)!), they have installed Ubuntu as the operating system.  I'm thrilled.  Before I left Chance and I had tried to download to my Netbook but ran into problems as I didn't have a CD drive.  The operating system is really simple, intuitive and free!  For those of you that don't know about it,  please check it out www.ubuntu.com.  As the website says, "Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'Humanity to others', or 'I am what I am because of who we all are'". By the time dinner rolls around, my energy and attention span are simply gone so I opt for bed and another sleepless nite.