So after being hooked to OS X for about 4 months, I’m trying to wean myself back onto a Linux desktop. And to do that, I have a new toy: the Ion window manager. Ion is great–instead of overlapping windows, everything is tiled. Always. It seemed kind of nutty at first, but after a couple hours it’s getting to be pretty neat. For example, resizing windows is just an alt-drag, and switching desktops, focusing different frames, and cycling through tabs is cake.
In other news, I finally made the jump and switched email providers from Slashmail to Fastmail (note: referral link). The “Enhanced” plan is $40/year and gives a 2gb message store, 250mb webspace (see tommykho.com), has great filtering, a fast web interface, and IMAP!
Enough procrastinating…finals week begins…