> One of the things I did was not connecting my iMac (which I still use for composing music in Ableton, programming, reading PDFs, etc.) to the internet. I too

> One of the things I did was not connecting my iMac (which I still use for composing music in Ableton, programming, reading PDFs, etc.) to the internet. I too haven't connected my studio pc to the internet. However, the fact that it is still running XP admittedly facilitated that decision. ;) All in all, I could have written your post. I am still baffled that I became (to some degree) so anti-technology so early. While I don't fancy becoming an Amish I sort of subscribe to their conservative philosophy regarding technology in that now I run Debian on my laptop.