Stop! Web Time!

[andrewducker]

EDIT: The Web is _anything in a browser_. If it's not in a browser then it's not the web. If you use a chat client that's browser-based, then that counts. If you use one that's a program, then it doesn't.

[Poll #1657175]

The reason I'm curious is Google's pushing of the Chrome laptops - which are designed to be web only. I know that a lot of my time is spent on the web nowadays, but I'm curious as to what percentage most people spend on it.

(Non-web usages of the computer are either playing non-web games (Dragon Age and Super Meat Boy this week) and watching videos - although that's mostly on Julie's PC, as it's in the bedroom.)

The second question is because there was a big battle over MS Office versus OpenOffice, and I realised that I don't really use Office at home since I stopped sending letters. I still have it (the joy of a brother who works for Microsoft), but I can't see me using it.

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[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

When you say 'on the web', does that include time with chat programs like Jabber and AIM? Because I've got those running constantly, regardless of whatever else I'm doing -- like, right now, writing a paper. But if you're asking how much time I spend staring specifically at Firefox or Chrome, that's a different question.

If I could compose/format a paper in GoogleDocs and be confident that it would arrive in my professor's inbox looking just the way I want it to, I'd do it. But I haven't yet been impressed at the transition from one to the other.

[andrewducker]

"Web" is _purely_ the web. If it's a program then it's not on the web.

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

Would it count if I were running AIM through, say, meebo?

And then I had the moment of thinking, wait, does schoolwork/grading count as 'personal use' for a word processor? Because my inclination is to say yes, even though I realize intellectually it's for something that's paying me either way. But I do it on my own computer! ...Did I mention I have problems compartmentalizing?

For composing fiction, though? All GoogleDocs, all the time.

[andrewducker]

If you do it in a browser, it's the web. Otherwise it's the internet.

And yeah, you're not the only person who has problems differentiating between home and work ;->