Crazy But Able

When I was dragged kicking and screaming into the windows world a few years ago, one of the things I really missed from linux was multiple desktops. I used to keep literally hundreds of windows open at a time, spread across 8 desktops, with each desktop devoted to a different project. Eventually I spread to 10 desktops, and later, 12.

Alas, there is no application which provides simple, stable multiple desktop support for Windows. So eventually I wind up with, at times, literally dozens of windows open on my machine. (Why not hundreds? Tabbed browsing, of course; some of those Firefox windows have literally dozens of open tabs.) And since I hate taskbar grouping, I wind up with dozens of little teensy single-icon large buttons on my taskbar. The taskbar eventually gets a vertical scroll bar, in case you’re wondering how it displays them all.

Sometimes I get motivated and spend an hour or two clearing everything out, bookmarking the 30 or so open browser tabs I’m interested in, closing the 70 or so browser tabs I just forgot about, and closing down all of my open applications, etc. To be honest, however, most of the time I lose everything due to a power outage; I almost never have a completely blank taskbar.

So of course things get lost in the shuffle. Today I was in rare form, wading through the muck of the past two weeks, when I came upon an SSH window open to my webhost. I was bemused to see the following code open in an editor window:

<?php

// grab cookies.

// do htmly thingies.

// put up user interface.

?>

*sigh* If only I could remember what cool little web app I was supposed to be writing!

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