WARNING: Technically inclined rant.
After about one week of laziness, I finally configured my new operating system install and hardware. I connected the older hard drives, along with the new 160GB hard drive, and wiped them clean. I now have 3 hard drives with a total of 280GB hard disk space, with about 190gb unformatted.
It’s been several months since I’ve even used a windows machine, so far I haven’t felt the explicit need for one. I spent the evening populating my bashrc and vimrc and my fstab to do my bidding nicely.
I tried KDE4. It was pretty but I’m a sucker for gnome’s minimalist design, plus I was used to the console keybindings. I still haven’t configured the look, let alone change the desktop background for two weeks. Ubuntu’s default theme seems fine for now. I will probably move to fluxbox or awesome as a window manager, but Gnome’s fine for now.
I’ve been working a lot with pygtk. Writing a GUI is easier than I thought. I’m keeping the GUI away from my code using Glade, which is really sweet. I moved from banshee to amarok as my default media player. Lack of good proxy support in gnome is annoying. Apparently any program that uses kioslaves seems to be working fine.
I should post more often 
Atleast now I have a stable, working machine.
oh yes you should post more