procrastination diagram - January 2007

If you have any domains registered with GoDaddy, you are wrong.

I'm beginning to think that I need to switch to Windows on my laptop for a while, if only to try and understand how the other half (which is to say, nearly everyone else) thinks. I say this, because whiz-bang "new" applications (about which, more later) are seeming to have increasingly incomprehensible (to me, anyway) UI methodologies.

I suspect at least part of it is that one of the applications I was trying (jarnal) is either flaky or just doesn't do what I think it does, and possibly doesn't work very well with my window manager.

I could get much of the effect from switching to Gnome (it has enough Windows/Motif-think in its UI to have the right consequences in my head) but it would be too easy to cheat. I'm also not sure how much good it would do me unless I gave up emacs for mail, zephyr, and coding, but there isn't a windows alternative for zephyr (I guess I could switch to owl to maintain the the complete alienity of it all), and the temptation to beat all of those into working on windows in emacs would be high.

I could also probably get much of the effect from switching to a MacOS machine, but it many of the same problems switching to gnome does, only those problems would be more annoying because I've gotten really used to Debian and switching Unix platforms is no longer something I'm used to doing. (Also, I may want to play more with OneNote.)

It's been several years (I think the last time was early 2003) since I both gave much thought to my computation environment and actually did something about it. (This involved switching to ion as a window manager and emacs term-mode as a terminal emulator in order to make some pointing-device related RSI go away; ion stuck, and seems particularly addictive from a UI perspective (I haven't seen my desktop background in years), term-mode had problems and seemed like overkill once my hands stopped hurting.

I wonder how happy MacOS X is on a T42, or if I could convince work that it needs a loaner MacBook Pro.