Myles has issued a chal­lenge to all west­coast­blog­gers… how do we work? Work? What’s that?

What desk­top soft­ware do you use every day?

Myles men­tions Out­look. I love Out­look. It amazes me with it’s pos­si­bil­i­ties every day. I can’t wait for Out­look 12. Colour coded lists!

It goes with­out say­ing that I use Fire­fox. And a whole stack of exten­sions, but the most impor­tant one is the Web Devel­oper exten­sion. That and the lorem ipsum gen­er­a­tor are fairly essen­tial to my daily work.

When I’m at home, I also use Feed­De­mon to keep up with the 250-odd RSS feeds that I have. It’s an amaz­ing pro­duc­tiv­ity tool — there’s no way I’d con­sider check­ing 250 indi­vid­ual web sites — but Feed­De­mon brings them all to me.

What web sites do you use every day?

Gmail, Google, del.icio.us. Also eBay but that’s not work. Most web sites that I would list are actu­ally taken care of by Feed­De­mon. Flickr for sure. And Port80, of course!

What PDA/personal organizer/system do you use to keep organized?

I have a really nice lit­tle Asus PDA, but it’s a bit neglected at the moment. I love read­ing ebooks on it though, when I have time to read fic­tion (not often lately). PDAs are good for that, and also for play­ing Dope­Wars, the great­est com­puter game ever writ­ten. I have a Sym­bian PDA phone but I really don’t like it any­more. Amaz­ingly, I recently switched back to a nice hard cover note­book and pen. The note­book is lime green (of course) and cov­ered in stick­ers. The pen is a Bic Inten­sity Clic, the nicest gel ink pen I have ever found (and I’ve tried heaps).

Hmmm… noth­ing sur­pris­ing there! Except maybe the old school notebook.

So, what about the rest of ya?