Two days ago a non-descript package arrived. Opening up the package very carefully, I found a big, rectangular cardboard box inside, with on it something that looked like an assembly drawing of a mouse trap.

After putting on my Hazmat suit, and telling wife and kid to evacuate the building, I carefully opened it. Inside was a black slab, about 12 by 9 inches inside. At that point I heard “Also Sprach Zarathustra” in the back of my mind. Luckily it wasn’t a monolith, but one of Google’s CR48 netbooks.

So far I’ve been able to charge the battery, take my profile picture, log into our corporate and home networks, and probably screw up the built-in 3G wireless account…

I haven’t run into any major problems yet, apart from the fact that my beloved NotScripts uses a setting in a file on the file system, that is not accessible - all you get with the Chrome OS is a browser windows. But I’ll let you all share in the experience of Living in the Cloud.

Oh, and I apologize for the picture quality - I only had my cellphone available, and the carpet didn’t make for the best background…