Rockets Still In Orbit - After 22 Games!

Houston Rockets' Rafer Alston (12) and Luis Scola (4), of Argentina, celebrate during the fourth quarter of a basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers Sunday, March 16, 2008, in Houston. The Rockets beat the Lakers 104-92 to win their 22nd consecutive game. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Rockets Beat Lakers - Extend Streak to 22

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First place in the western conference. All by themselves. The Rockets were VERY impressive yesterday. What a team effort and without Yao Ming. And without Tracy McGrady, really. He didn't score until late into the 3rd period and looked exhausted through much of the game. He played every minute of two games this week and you could see the heavy legs as he ran up and down the court.

Rafer Alston was the "man" yesterday. 31 points and 8 three pointers. Amazing. He was clutch in "Clutch City."

Tuesday night is Boston. The Celts are the leaders in the east. Should be fun!

Amazing Rockets. First Place After 21 Straight Wins!

Amazing. 21 consecutive wins. First place in the Western Conference. Wow.

The Rockets rallied from a first-half deficit and beat the Charlotte Bobcats 89-80 and take their winning streak to 21 games and become only the second NBA team with a streak of 21 or more.

The 1971-72 Lakers won 33 in a row. The Rockets host this year's Lakers on Sunday afternoon.

Sunday's game is going to be fun to watch!

Ubuntu

Installed Ubuntu 7.10 operating system on my laptop this week. Ubuntu is a version of Linux that is winning praise because it is user-friendly to setup and use. I am very excited to say that "so far, so good." I am still in the process of trying to get everything installed that I like to use.

I am messing with it while Norma is getting Aidan to sleep and I'm also watching the Rockets/Spurs matchup on ESPNHD. The Rockets have been a lot of fun to watch this year.

What I like best about Ubuntu is this -- FREE. From the website:

Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

But, I have read that before... many years ago. Linux is everything Windows is... but it never was. It was glitchy and not easy to use. We'll see this time around. But, I have a sneaky suspicion that I could be using this on my laptop and be very happy.

We'll see. On my laptop I only really need to write word docs, email, browse the web, chat and do presentations (for the classes I teach at night and on weekends). This Ubuntu OS has all of those applications and they are pretty easy to use. In fact, the chat application called PIDGIN is about the best I have ever seen!

So who knows? I'll detail the progress here throughout the next couple of months.