Ubuntu inux on old laptop

I had a hard drive crash on my main laptop a few weeks ago and ended up getting a newer laptop with MS Vista x64 on it because as expected the software that came with the laptop would not allow me to reinstall the backup I had made of it on the new hard drive (shitty software backup that came with the laptop). Because of advances I decided it wasn't worth the issues of buying a new copy windows XP OS to put on it. The new laptop as one might expect has become my main workhorse (after some tweeks Vista isn't as awful as I expected).

Now it should be pointed out that I have had much experience with Linux in the past but have never checked out the Ubuntu version, mainly I was working with it as a server OS and didn't want all the stuff that Ubuntu has on it and needed the granularity control that I could get from other distributions. I decided to try Ubuntu for a few different reasons, I hadn't before, I heard it was great on newer laptops, and it had good package management tools. I have had it installed for about a week and just love it. It is so nice to have a mobile Linux option now and it seems just as reliable as my desktop installations of Linux, performing how a computer should... it just works, security updates in the background, no odd things being installed without me saying so, nothing breaking because of an update. If only i could run games and photoshop on this I would be set.

High gas prices

Mostly because of the high gas prices I am looking again at scooters. Being that I am not some skinny light guy I'm unsure if the 49CC ones would really go even 30MPH with me no mater what the company's say. So to become more informed about them first I have joined a scooter forum at http://scooterforums476.yuku.com/ in hopes that the people on it can help me out.