Once upon a time, in August 2004, I bought an IBM Thinkpad. It was a state of the art machine then, 802.11b and all.

Time passed, and two and a half years later, it shall leave my brother’s hands, to whom it was given to, for it has now been exchanged for a ‘state of the art’ Lenovo laptop, which shall again be used by brother dearest

It was my sole means of keeping in touch with people when I was in the UK. My solitary companion, when I was bored out of my wits in the campus hostel. It saw the birth of Cyberjunkie.org, and its eventual evolution to Ubertechnophile. Its been modified, made to look like every other operating system other than Windows, survived the biting cold of Aberdeen, Scotland and the searing heat of Mumbai. Its been my means of bringing to reality, many an adventurous venture.

Its funny to think I’m actually writing an obituary for a computer, but without it, life in the UK would have been a different ball game.

Bye Thinkpad, thou shalt be sorely missed.

My new personal laptop? None. The Nokia N80 shall do, very well.

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