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Resolutions for 2007?
JoeCommodore asks: "It's that time of year where many of us review our last year and look at ourselves in the mirror, checkbook balance, and/or social schedule (EPs, stats, and skills, for those who relate to RPGs) and make resolutions to improve ourselves. One of my resolutions is to stop my increasing diversionary tactics when working on my many projects at home. You know, instead of working on some problem problem I turn to the internet (Slashdot), games, snacks, and so on. Either I need to get better at controlling my diversion habits or turn them them into something positive. So what have you thought of doing for yourself in 2007?"
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Not a resolution as such, but a general aim I've had for a while now. Time to rationalise and purge a lot of kit.
In our household there's currently a bit of an Apple-fest: MacBook Pro, a MacBook, a Mac Mini, a Power Mac G5 tower, a G3 Blueberry iMac and ye olde SE/30. There's also an Atari STe with SM124 monitor, a C64 with 1541, two SNES consoles (one PAL, one NTSC), a Wii, a Gamecube, a Playstation 1, a Playstation 2, two Gameboy Advance SPs, and an ancient P100 laptop that does duty as a disk drive for the C64. Oh, and currently I have three RAQ 4 servers of varying spec as well. A Series 1 Tivo (I'm in the UK) too, and a work-issued laptop rounds off the collection.
It doesn't take a genius to see that this is a bit much...
However, it's easy to say it's a bit much but actually paring it down is much harder. The MacBook Pro is my main machine, the MacBook is my wife's. The G3 has been handed to my 5 year-old daughter and does good service as a learning machine. The Power Mac...well, that can probably go although I do have one last PPC-only app (QuadraSID, a music plugin so Rosette is out). The Mac Mini? Nope - that's getting an expanded role next year as a DNS/svn/postgres/iPhoto/iTunes server. The SNES? No Streetfighter II Turbo on the Wii's virtual console yet so one at least will probably stay. The RaQs can all go now. The SE/30? Undecided - never used but there for nostalgic reasons rather than use. The STe? Llamatron. The C64? Over my dead body will that go - SID music plus all the great games. Emulators can only do so much - sitting in front of a real C64 is still a different experience to using the excellent Power64 emulator. The Playstation 1? Worms - the PS2 doesn't get the resolution quite right and the game looks better on a PS1. The PS2? Revz, Tekken 5, Grand Tourismo...can't emulate that yet. The GBAs? Maybe one - my three year-old son is getting into that a bit at the moment (mainly Spiro). The ancient P100 laptop - probably yes as I've sorted out a Flash-based interface for the C64 now. The Tivo? EyeTV on the Mac isn't good enough yet, so nope - the Tivo stays.
So I'm left in this daft position of having kit coming out of my ears and yet being unable to get rid of most of it since it all still has a purpose. Still feels like I should do some rationalisation though.
Cheers,
Ian