I do mostly web-app work and gigabytes of text munging. My current work box is an underpowered WinXP machine that was the replacement after a tree fell through

I do mostly web-app work and gigabytes of text munging. My current work box is an underpowered WinXP machine that was the replacement after a tree fell through my office window and right onto my lovely new box. I did snag a nice Logitech laser mouse, as the desks are too shiny for old-style optical mice and the thing is so horribly precise when I need it. Developing environment-wise, I'm shifting from jEdit to Emacs as I better learn the latter; I'm enjoying this process. Things like Ido have been a revelation. I occasionally have to muck around with Visual Studio, and I don't enjoy that process. SVN for source control, though I've poked around with Git. Intend to transition there, too. I mostly use TortoiseSVN as the UI. Executor (http://executor.dk http://executor.dk) is a huge productivity aid - with a few keystrokes, I can start pretty much anything on the computer without worrying about the mouse or the Start menu. AltDesk (http://www.astonshell.com/altdesk http://www.astonshell.com/altdesk) is the Windows multiple-desktop solution I've been using for some years. Between 2 19" flatscreens and the nine virtual desktops I have set up, it's not hard to keep windows organized. The Gimp for rare excursions into image-editing. Outlook for mail because I have no real choice in this Exchange shop. Python for more scripting uses than I can list, including a program to enforce a long list of email filters/rules expressed in a YAML file. (Outlook has a ridiculously small limit on the amount of rules you can have, and I like to give clients their own folders.) I've been tinkering with Growl for Windows as an enhancement to my pomodoro-timer program; so far, not bad.