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Hardware: You beat it first, then you put it in production. Be careful once it’s in because hardware can wear out.

Software: Software doesn’t wear out. You beat it first to get the bugs out, then you keep beating it forever.

For example, today I was thinking about regular complete software rebuilds (a good idea) vs. regular hardware reboots (not always a good idea). Just because that server booted fine this morning, doesn’t mean it’ll reboot fine right now. So watch hardware — it wears out, software doesn’t.

TaskPaper is looking great. I’ve already got my personal and work todo.txt files in it and its use hasn’t slowed me down at all today.* It seems that TP is having some trouble parsing my large work todo.txt file, evidenced by it hanging up when I try to filter by @BZ or @QA tags.

* Okay, one thing: Pasting from TaskPaper into NeoOffice kept the font from TP, which I didn’t want — I wanted straight text. Oh, well.

I’m excited that I can now do screencasts. Most important is for documenting things to put in Bugzilla at work or documenting things to train people.