The BigLig Thinks

We'll set aside for the moment my 30 minutes of desperate frustration the other day I spent discovering that Microsoft's Intellimouse software had "Magnifier" mapped to one of the mouse button's I don't use.
What I want to rant about is the "Do not ask me this again" check box. Why don't more applications have them?

Example in point, iTunes Art Importer. Lovely piece of software, but every time I tell it to overwrite the new art onto the album I am working with, it asks me if I'm sure. Well, let me see, I'm using software designed to write art to iTunes, and before starting I hit the check-box saying that it should overwrite any old art before hand... Yeah, pretty sure you don't need to be asking me that for every single one of the 300 albums on my PC.

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Lately I've been feeling sort of unfulfilled. I'm not entirely sure why this is, it may be because work, while still offering challenges, is offering the same old challenges. GTD is helping a bit, but the joy isn't as much as it once was.

But perhaps part of this would be solved by more creativity, not at work, but in my own time.
Music, writing, photographs. Something like that. I don't know if I have any ability, but I think I want to find out.

Now, this is brought to a head because I'm considering buying myself a Mac Mini for my birthday this month. Part of this is to have always on e-mail in my bedroom (which needs a silent computer). Part is to have a music/video player there - which FrontRow would be ideal for. Part is to learn and play with OSX.

And part of this would be to have a machine that wasn't for work, but which was mine, to work on creatively. Garageband, TextEdit, iPhoto.

The cost worrys me though. Buying one off the shelf with 512Mb RAM is daft, so the cheapest is £540. Or even go up to £680 for a nice Core Duo model.

Part of me is thinking I should be able to use the tools I have now for creativity, that buying a new toy is a waste. It won't make me be creative on it's own. I have to do that myself.

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