Greetings, My name is Scott - hailing from Oakdale, Minnesota (a suburb east of Saint Paul). I am an unemployed legal professional squeaking-by as a freelance, creative writer and aspiring novelist (truly, necessity is the mother of invention!). I am 46 and have found myself to be an amateur PC enthusiast since the early 1980's (my first PC's were a Timex Sinclair 1016 and Apple IIe). Make no mistake, however, I am by no means a geek; I fumble around in the dark until familiarity develops. I haven't done any programming since high-school (BASIC) and even then I was mediocre at best. Last week I had to put my cat to sleep - seizures due to terminal cancer. Having survived that traumatic life-changing event, I decided to keep the ball rolling by finally taking a leap of faith to permanently emancipate myself from the evil clutches of Microsoft. I downloaded, burned and installed Ubuntu 11.10 on top of my XP - crushing the life out of all that was familiar and finding myself again fumbling around in the dark (only there exists herein some semblance of illumination). In a nutshell, this is basically me and where I'm at in the scheme of things. Regards,