{"id":1822,"date":"2009-02-13T20:44:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T01:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2009-02-28T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T21:29:21","slug":"i-have-nadd-and-im-proud-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/02\/13\/i-have-nadd-and-im-proud-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have N.A.D.D. (and I’m proud of it)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00a0 have NADD – that’s “Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder.” And I’m proud of it. (Rands – of Rands in Repose<\/a> – does a great job of describing what NADD is<\/a>, if you’re not familiar with the term, or if you can’t grasp the concept right away).<\/p>\n

It was after seeing “Show off your N.A.D.D.<\/a>” that I thought “gee, I have a lot of windows open too… I wonder how my desktop looks in comparison?<\/em>” So I took a screen shot during a typical session at my computer.<\/p>\n

Suffice to say, it’s… well maybe you should just look for yourself.<\/p>\n

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For a better view, click the image to see a full-sized (that’s 1280×1024) picture.<\/p>\n

Let’s face it – there’s a lot<\/em> of stuff going on there. And I’m aware of all of it. There’s a virtual machine<\/a> running, a Subversion<\/a> checkin in progress, Visual Studio<\/a>, 2 IP-phone applications (eyeBeam<\/a>, the one you can see, and Skype<\/a>, which is minimized), a Remote Desktop session, 2 email programs (Outlook and Thunderbird<\/a>), and… well I think you get the point.<\/p>\n

Although I must admit, I’ve actually brought a number of apps to the foreground that are normally minimized so that you can see them. At any given time, I rarely have more than 2 or 3 windows “active” and in the foreground. Anything else gets minimized – or better yet, sent to the system tray (sorry, taskbar notification area<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Oh and in case that wasn’t enough going on, I should mention that my desktop background (or wallpaper) changes randomly every 15 minutes (thanks to the awesome John’s Background Switcher<\/a> program), cycling through a well-organized folder of wallpaper pictures I’ve collected over the years<\/a>. What can I say, I just like to be surprised whenever I switch windows!<\/p>\n

One of the things that this picture fails to capture, however, is the number of tabbed interfaces in use. At first glance, there may appear to be only, what, 8 or 9 windows open – but consider this:<\/p>\n