so, i'm posting from the fake account on the netbook, and it's certainly more like an operating system, all of a sudden. the web cam does work, so i guess i can "skype" over it if necessary. there's word processors and stuff...

it's really more like an android phone, though, in the way it throws the apps out at you.

i've got a pin installed, and it seems to be functional, even if i can't really turn the thing off. i guess we'll see what performance is like in the long run.

the issue with the chrome store was indeed just the guest account, which i kind of guessed - the button magically appeared once i logged in. so, i got the basic toolkit of internet survival - ad blocker, javascript blocker, html5 blocker. these are pre-requisites for getting used to this...

the other extensions don't seem to want to work, though. i think it's the mail server that seems to be stripping the information out, as it previews correctly but doesn't show up in the sent items, or if i sent it to myself. so, i don't think it's that blogger isn't getting it, i think it's that it's not getting past gmail; it's less that it "doesn't work" and more that it's being removed. i've tried editing it through the inspection, as well - nope.

but, it takes whatever i insert in the gui.

i wonder if it's the browser. so, i'm going to try a few things from firefox on the other machine.

right now, i can at least type from here, and it may be enough. but, i'm imagining myself sitting in a coffee shop overnight after a show and not being able to embed files into the review; it's kind of not really good enough.

another idea may be to start another blog for travelling and to copy things over when i get home. i'm so remarkably ocd. yikes. but, it might be the best way out.

the integration into google could potentially be ideal from the blogging perspective, but i don't know if it's as good for the vlogging, or for youtube in general. even if the machine were a little more powerful - and this is really just a glorified phone, remember - i'm going to quickly get frustrated by the lack of hypervisors, the inability to edit media, etc. is there a flac player?

for right now, migration is a non-starter - this device needs to be quarantined once i get it out of the house again. but, in the long run, if i were to get some kind of mobile internet connection (one of those flash drives or something) with a more safe connection, could i switch over totally?

it's not clear.

we'll have to do the experiment....

at the least, it's finally set up, even if i end up with some kind of workaround for it.