One of my favorite passions from my teenage days was assembly language programming. Don’t laugh.

It embodies a lot of my favorite things about programming: I have total control, it is clean and simple, and it is just and fast and functional as I am capable of making it. The only thing standing in the way of me and world domination is how well I can program.

I finally convinced myself to buy a netbook recently. I am currently typing this post on it.

I got an Asus EeePC 1000HA – that is, it’s got a 10" screen, 160 GB hard drive (regular, not solid state), and a 6-cell battery (4.5 hours or so battery life under real-world conditions, I estimate). I’m pretty thrilled about it: typing is fine (though the right shift key has some adjustment time), the screen is nice and crisp, and it is very snappy under Windows XP and in Linux. The 1.6 GHz Atom CPU is just enough to play Netflix Instant videos, which was the only thing I was worried about performance-wise.

As a response to a previous post regarding LaTeX’s

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I never noticed it before, but many of the resources that I either own or would love to own regarding PDF, PostScript, MetaPost, etc., are all available for free online!