This has been a very hectic year and I am happy to have a few days of relatively slow time. I went on a walk in beautiful Sollefteå earlier today in the cold. Sollefteå features a great deal of undulated terrain, a river and a very picturesque setting. I have a great deal of planning to do for 2009, but I will wait another few days. I need to get a book proposal text together and I am also looking into upgrading some of my technology. For a long time I considered buying a Mac, but I almost decided on getting a Windows 64-bit system. A difficult choice. One of my criteria is that I would like to use the same primary operating system on the all the computers I use, and as far as Apple is concerned, I do not think their laptops match my requirements in terms of battery life length, modularity, and screen resolution (in relation to screen size). Also, I use some Windows tools that I really need, but one key tool (X1) does not seem to have support for Windows 64 bit. I am ok with using an iphone though – it is just too good to be excluded because of a principle (I loved running Sea Dragon – Microsoft software – on one the other day).