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(This post has been a bit of an effort to get out, and I'm not 100% happy with it - so you've been warned.)

I'm a big believer that creative people need to exercise their creative muscle, that you need to regularly do things that scratch the creative itch within.

Ok, I realise programming isn't socially recognised as art, but can you honestly tell me that anything involving creativity isn't?

If you're a programmer and don't think what you do is creative, chances are you're not very good at it (if you disagree, feel free to stop reading).

Anyway (woo, getting a bit off track there)... my problem has been one of ambition, not because I have no big ideas - rather, I have a spreadsheet full of them, a list of fairly big, cool ideas that I'd love to get started. Choosing is hard.

Recently, one of my colleagues took a week off work to pursue a software project. This kind of blew me away, it's never occurred to me to take time off for things I want to do other than holidays. Mind blowing stuff.

I've recently moved house, sharing with $partner and her Mum while we save for a house. Whilst this is a good thing, I haven't really sorted out internet access to my computer - so everything has been moving at a snail's pace.

One of the worst things is trying to use my IMAP email on 3G. Being slow isn't so much of a problem, but the latency of 3G kills it. I was contemplating getting a laptop from work, and was discussing this with a good friend - who made a joke about moving my desktop to the cloud... so I did.

I've been looking for a solution that lets you run applications remotely with native windowing - similar to VMWare Unity, but remotely. The X display protocol does this for you, but you'd have to launch applications each time you start up a new session - you can't detach your windows from work and reattach them in the same state at home.