moved cheese

getting a new computer is always nice (thanks, james). however, the downside of having a dedicated it guy in the office now is that instead of a relatively unshackled windows box, i have one that’s, er, maintained. which means that i get an access denied message when doing basically everything. installing programs, mucking around with the start menu, deleting desktop icons, installing fonts. to some extent this is overzealousness in protecting me from myself (and goodness knows i’m capable of damaging a windows box), but at the same time (wait for it), the division of what anyone can safely do, what anyone can do with careful consideration, what only administrators can do, and what no one should do is handled infinitely more gracefully in mac os x; why? because at no point am i prevented from doing anything that i need to do on a daily basis. it will take some work to put this thing right.

windows is dumb, and people should stop using it.