Having gone to the trouble of making that long blog post about productivity tools in Windows for Web Developers, I went and switched to Ubuntu on my main desktop PC and I'm now wondering if I'll ever want to use Windows again. I'll briefly mention a few things about my Ubuntu experience so far that have really impressed me.

1) It's unbelievably easy to access and install new free software.

2) Unlimited desktop panels (really really useful)

3) Total control and configurability without the agony of trying to modify your Windows experience

4) gEdit (I know I JUST said I'd probably never switch from Notepad, but...)

I've been working from home for close to a year now and it's interesting to see how my attitude to it has changed. After 10 years of working in various different types of office, from the small-startup-in-condemned-warehouse variety to the cctv-system-recording-your-cubicle-time evil corporation type, and after years of school, I had developed a deeply ingrained attitude that work is not fun. Fun is something you have outside of work, and therefore during your working life you fantasize constantly about getting away from it. Weekends of stress release, holidays of escape, early retirement through sensible financial planning, writing a bestseller.

Well, after yet another website revamp, I feel like I've finally got a site that won't make co-workers laugh when they google my name. Actually, I don't have co-workers any more, and that's the point. I've been self-employed as a freelance web developer for almost a year now, after 10 years in the corporate IT world, and so my personal site has now morphed into a business site with a personal twist.