Last Monday I mentioned buying a new netbook, opining that it just might inspire me to launch a new blog.

So I spent some time yesterday deleting all the crap that bundled with it (Microsoft Works, Microsoft Office, MSN Explorer, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Live Essentials).

See a pattern evolving?

I don't need that stuff on my netbook. I just need the netbook to write blogs, administer my websites, administer my servers, transfer photos, and check e-mail.

This week I purchased a netbook, the Toshiba NB305-N310. A netbook is just a mini laptop, with a 10" screen. It's meant to be a portable companion to your other laptop, as opposed to the computer you use all the time.

It's kinda ironic in that laptops were originally a portable version of a desktop computer. But now, laptops have surpassed desktops in sales, and most people use them as their main computers. So today, they come out with netbooks as the portable companion to a laptop.

I bought a netbook because every now and then I take my laptop to a cafe or bar, and spend time doing work there. Not because I have to be there, but because I need to get out of the house.