Monday, February 28, 2011

"What did YOU order?!?!?"

"What did YOU order?!?!?!?" my wife shouted up the stairs.

Recently a box dropped on my front doorstep; non-descript, plain brown cardboard, shipped from "Fulfillment"... & I had no idea what could be inside. Which surprised me since I'm pretty diligent about knowing what's shipping to me & when it's scheduled to arrive. Not to mention, I'm a lot more budget conscious since there's 3 mouths to feed in our house now. Hmmmm... the box is a bit on the heavy side... now I am getting concerned... What did I order & how much did it cost?!?!?!?

Well, nothing else to do, I opened the box & inside was...

...another box!!! Whaaaaaaaaa?!?!?!? Apparently, it contained the parts & plans to create a rocket powered hamster wheel! Opened up the inside box & all I caught was a Google logo on a piece of paper...

"HOOOOOLLLLLLEEEEEE CRAAAAAAAAAP!!!!!"

3 months earlier I had seen a post somewhere that Google was going to be testing its Chrome Operating System by building laptops & was asking for participants in a pilot program. I entered my information on a whim, said I'd like to be able to give an "everyman" opinion since I don't work in technology... I hadn't thought about it since. With no notice or anything apparently I was in! Here it was! Google's CR-48!!!

That was a couple weeks ago & after working through a couple of bugs I'm finally getting around to really playing around with this thing. Seemed like a great opportunity to light the fire to resurrect this long forsaken blog by posting my "beta" experiences. The CR-48 specs have been posted all over the net, so I'm not going to get into that, but I will try to get a weekly experience recap going. So, stick around if you want & lets see what this bucket of bolts can do!!!

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