The Hilton Chronicle

Sunday, October 10, 2004

Talk about cutting it close. Because of the long weekend my passport remains "in transit" in the Purolator system until Tuesday. Once that is secured there is nothing left to do but pack and get ready for Wednesday evening. The instruments are on their way across the country to Toronto where we will have them loaded on an Air Cubana flight and sent down once we are in Havana. It will be interesting to see what shape they are in when we receive them there after their journey. I get to see how well my packing job holds up.
I'm still being impressed with Mozilla especially the tabbed browsing feature and I spent some time perusing their site yesterday looking at the various "extensions" you can get which are like plugins that enhance the features of Firefox with different little applications. Cool stuff. And last night I spent over an hour downloading Knoppix, the "load from CD" version of Linux. I haven't tried it out yet but I'm curious to see how well it works and if it is everything they say it is.