So I’ve finally signed up to a del.icio.us account. I probably should have done this a long while ago, especially given the way I think, but for some reason was put off. Anyhow, so far, I’m very impressed, and am taken by how simple it is to use.

I’m going to experiment this week; basically, anything I see that I might want to linklog, I’m going to plop into delicious. At the end of each day, I’ll run through what I tagged, and if it’s worth putting up here, then I’ll do that. It’s a preliminary filter, as it were; also, not having to log into MT saves time and concentration.

There’s a lot flying around my head at the moment. I’ve been rearranging filing systems, recently; my work computer is now remarkably tidy, and I’m about to start sorting out the Powerbook. Launchbar is part of that process; so’s this. Cleaning out my Mac desktop is going to be quite hard work.

I think the next part of the de-clut is a holiday and lots of fresh air.

I bought software online for the first time in my life today. Handed over my card details, got emailed the license key.

It’s not exactly shareware, given that the unregistered product is crippled, but it’s significant, I guess; I’ve been using shareware since the age of six, and have never registered any until now – mainly because it usually required sending credit card details to the US.

Which, in my case, at six I did not have.

Anyhow, I bought Launchbar. From the first time I used Launchbar 4, I swore I’d buy it when it was done. Unfortunately, for about the past six months, I’ve had to download a new copy every 30 days. Not any more. Today, I downloaded Beta 9, and found that I could purchase it (in order to uncripple it). So I did.

It’s a remarkable piece of software, indexing not just files, but information and metadata galore. It’s easier just to try it than to explain it, but now I’ve got it, I can confidently state it pretty much makes many items that are in my Dock obsolete. I grew up on command lines, but my mastery of *nix is pretty lousy. Now, I can let my fingers walk through my entire hard disk, finding contacts, files, apps, and internet searches.

If you’ve got OSX, I really recommend buying it. It’s changed the way I use my Mac, and made my Dock a lot tidier.

Kitchen looks fantastic. Two lunch options each day – one veggie, one not – delivered straight to your desk. Order the day before. The archive of past menus is mouth-watering, with a variety ranging from Oriental and Middle Eastern to nursery food. Oh to sample their calzone.

So it’s a shame it’s based in Nottingham, then; my taste buds are tingling just looking at their menus…