I'm enjoying my new Dell laptop. It runs Windows XP -- in response to the outraged howls of customers who resented the "cop chip" and software bloat of Windows Vista, Dell resumed offering the older, more refined, and less intrusive operating system. On new computers.
An earlier attempt to purchase a reconditioned HP computer with XP came to naught -- both purchases were snapped up by someone who hit the [Submit] button a second or two before I did.
The wide screen format is nice -- I finally got to watch Stalingrad last night, on this laptop. Grueling, grim, and unpleasant film, by the guys who gave us Das Boote. Now the earlier movie permitted one survivor, the story-teller (c.f. Moby Dick -- "And I alone am escaped to tell thee!") Nobody got out of Stalingrad alive. The armies numbered in the millions. German casualties, killed and injured, 600,000+. 91,000 imprisoned and sent to Siberia, of whom 6,000 survivors came home years later.
The movie starts with proud military people, disciplined young men, sharply uniformed, highly trained, exemplars of all that's deemed praiseworthy in the military culture. By the time they reached the end of the largest land battle in recorded history,[1] the polish and nobility were all gone. All that remained was loyalty to fellow soldiers.
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A suggestion for occasional "road warriors:" before buying the T-Mobile wi-fi hot spot card, check and see if there's a free hot spot already in place. As I learned too late, the free service was already there -- and had a stronger signal than the service I paid for!
[1] A necessary qualifier. The Bible indicates major global conflicts in the pre-flood (antedeluvian) world, and there are intriguing hints of prehistoric nuclear warfare uncovered by analyzing isotopes in archaeological artifacts.
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