Turns out, the trick to getting a wifi card to work on linux is to make sure you get one that someone else has already made work. And it helps if the card is $1.99 after rebates.

So, here I am, 50% more wireless on my laptop, running Ubuntu. Posting about it on my blog. Yay.

I guess it could be worse. I could be one of those myspace whores, all 'you must be my buddy to read my poetry and my posts that are really nothing more than fanfic, all about me, so please be my friend, I'm better than all those other people on myspace, because I'm private, so you're special if you're reading my shit. Maybe when I have more than just Tom on my friendlist, I'll un-private, oh, god, I'm so unpopular. *cutcutcut*'

It's not going to save you. Your future employers are likely to have a way to see your shit anyway.