Today was the third day at my new workplace. It was also the first time the UPS in the server rooms was supposed to work for more than a 5-minute test. It failed[1]. So, this was also the first time for me without a net connection at work.

Besides that, it was a quite calm day. I tweaked the setup of my Dell Laptop (No TabletPC, though) to make it work as I want it. More specifically, this meant

  • Upgrading Office to SP-3 and adding “ReadAsPlain” to Registry so that Outlook will always display Mail as “Plain Text”
  • Installing Firefox and a bunch of extensions
  • Setup the Palm Environment, Conduits and more

Next steps might involve:

  • Find a PC counter-part for Quicksilver. I really can’t live without it anymore. (Anyone tried AppRocket so far?)
  • Tweak the setup even more

Besides that, I found out that I need Spotlight badly! There’s tons of good and interesting documents on our corporate intranet and I definitely need something faster than LookOut or Google Desktop[2]. And I need SmartFolders as well!

Anyway, there’s lots of interesting projects ahead, lots of past experience I gained ex-curriculum (Anyone LDAP or Outlook WebDAV here? ;) ) that proves to be very useful now. It couldn’t be better at all!

[1] Yes, they installed an air-conditioning in the server room. No, it was not for the Napster Server.

[2] Although the former is yet very useful for quick searches.