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HP TouchPad and WebOS... And some euros too...

A month ago I was surfing the web when I noticed a news: HP was about to sell its TouchPad for 99$ or 199$ again (original price was around 500$). 99 was for 16Gb and 199 for 32Gb version respectively. I was excited. Wanted to have a tablet since the iPad one days, but also I was not willing to pay 500 dollars... and I'm no more an Apple guy: I still think some of their products are incredible, but their policy is a thing I'm not willing to accept any more. So I was looking for something different: a Android tablet? A Nook? I had already heard about HP's tablet and it inspired me. A tablet with a linux flavour on it, a real dream! But 500 euros/dollars... Then I went to a friend's house and seen he has got an iPad... I decided I wanted a tablet... NOW! I tried to buy one during the one time sellout on ebay... and failed! But I was there, I'd already created an ebay account, already I had tried to buy, felt the power, the chill of auctioning! And there where a new

4 days into 2012

The end of the world is already coming...  ... ok, I'm joking. Let's start with the balance of this 2012 until now: it sucks! A lot of bad news around us, Sabayon will not load the kernel from Grub2, nor Chakra will find a way to boot. Luckily I just found out that awn works also in Gnome-Shell, so I have some light ahead. Weellll... and tonight I've seen Gran Canaria and El Teide from Morro Jable's harbour and it was a great view (I should have already bought that damn photo camara!!)... but still the night is a bit sad. This year will see some changes (finally, I say!!) and it is a bit sad. The future is bright and the past has been. So what I am writing of? Nothing... and nobody. Cheerio