Well, a year must be up as it is time again for me to re-build my work PC–Windows XP Pro SP2–yet again. The deciding factor this time? Registry corruption, GUI degradation, and over all system instability. Precipitating factor was likely the remote install of an SMS client. This is one of the reasons why I gave up on Windows at home, I am much too rough on OSes and Linux seems to handle a solid beating better, though I am very curious to see what kind of pounding OSX can take.

All is all, it isn’t such a bad way to spend the day. I am able to sweep out all the cruft that has built up over time and get focused again on the applications that I use the most. The only drag is setting Firefox back up the way that I like it; a real nicety would be making the profile portable because having to re-install some 20 extensions and countless greasemonkey scripts is a drag.

Back to the grind…