One of the things I like to do is play with software.
That is, I like downloading software and opening it and tweaking around with it – all just for the fun of exploring new stuff.
I should say that I have all the software I need for what I do, which is not a lot – editing photographs, doing drawings, editing music files, drafting blogs, putting together a Web site, email, browsing, a bit of correspondence, a little spreadsheet stuff, desktop publishing, RSS feeds … and so on.
But if I come across, for example, a photo editing program I have not seen before, I will download it in a flash and see what it is all about. Now the curious thing here is that I am ultimately not all that interested in what it can do (most of the software I have is, for me, top of the line). Of course I am a little interested – there may be some feature which is interesting – it is just that I get such fun from the process of... read more