productivity

When blue ink is your therapist

Moriah Jovan

Look, figuring out how to get what you want is the easy part. Figuring out what you want is the hard part.

I thunk up this bit of wisdom for Magdalene (The Great Mormon Novel™) when I was rasslin’ with this concept way back in 2011. A perusal of my hard drive tells me I’ve been cogitating on this since at least 1998.

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Utilities

Moriah Jovan
A screenshot of a mostly clear desktop (Win 3.x green rivets background, task bar on the right), dated 04/15/2020.
Writhe in misery, fools! Obviously Windows 3.x green rivets is not a utility, but I think of it that way. I ❤️ it so much I’ve ported it from computer to computer for 25 years.

I love utilities. Love love FLOVE me some utilities. I have utilities for every single damned thing I ever did and do, and some are already built into Windows. I even have a utility to make whatever latest Windows OS look like XP. Yes, really. You will find that some of these are quite primitive and/or aren’t developed anymore. I. Do. Not. Care. They do what I want and when what I want to do is something I can’t do, I go looking for more utilities. No, I don’t want one program with all the bells and whistles. I want one program that does one task well. Read more →