I feel guilty! Whilst I was de-junking my office, Seth and a group of alpha/beta testers were readying the phenomenal Conversant and it's excellent installer for release. They've obviosuly been working their socks off and have achieved a great deal. All I achieved was a tidy office. Well, that's not quite true - dejunking the office has helped dejunk me! Of course, I've got lots of chores and tasks still to do but somehow having an uncluttered space is reinvigorating. Also, one of the techniques to overcome procrastination is to buckle down and do the jobs you dislike most first and then reward yourself with a task you really enjoy. In my case, one task I'll use as a reward will be exploring Conversant. It the thought of that reward doesn't make me into an anitcrastinator I don't know what will.

Radio Userland is another 'reward' system that I've been neglecting recently. I was very enthusiastic about RU early on. Still am. Just not as a weblogging tool now. I'm too attached to Conversant and Duncan's Jotter to replace them. Also, RU's propensity to slug my iBook's CPU and drain battery power was a downside. However, RU is still a major part of my web toolkit as I now use it in preference to my old version of Frontier when generating static web pages from BBEdit'ed files. Which reminds me of another reward that I'll be dusting off over the summer and that is to update my guest database version of the BBSite Suite to be more RU tool-like.

So, now I've dedicated my copy of Radio to Conversant for the duration of the beta/evaluation period. Fortunately, this hasn't affected the static web page generation functionality I rely on for my work website.