I have of late become increasingly unenamoured with the way my laptop communicates with me. In short, I hate being disturbed by a mere machine. In a multitasking environment, I want to switch tasks when I am ready, not when my computer dictates. I don't want to be beeped at. I don't want to be forced to deal with modal alerts, especially not from some browser window in the background that I've forgotten about. I don't want my computer's operating system or applications to interrupt me or my flow. Ever.

I am not my computer's servant.

I'm almost wondering if I should buy a Macintosh and use Mac OS X in an attempt to be interrupted less; after making three appearances on the Macintouch iPod nano page, I'm not buying one of those.

I also had a play with the very polished but simple Stellarium. It's enough to make me give up on SaVi entirely; we're so far behind the state of the graphical and user interface art it's not even funny.