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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[alextfish.livejournal.com]

I answered under the assumptions of:
* Discounting my work PC, even though I do a number of non-work webby things from it (such as writing this answer :P )
* Discounting any work-from-home on my home PC
* Counting time in a web browser pointed at my local web server, which would (and does) work just as well without a physical internet connection (A lot of my leisure time is spent developing a webapp at the moment, so I test it in a browser pointed at http://localhost:3000/ ...)
* Discounting the very frequent "mail checks" that I do by glancing at the tab titles of my always-open web browser while I'm doing something else

I don't have the issue that some other commenters have of "I'm doing lots of things at once" - I don't do much IM, don't listen to web music, and I only use Skype while I'm also playing Starcraft II.

Given all that, the largeish categories my time divides into:
* Reading (web)mail, chatting with friends via the ToothyChat Ajax client, reading LJ and links from it, etc - yes
* Developing the webapp in text editor and command line - no
* Developing the webapp in localhost browser - yes
* Playing games - mostly no, but yes for flash games
* Watching video - mostly no
* Research on the web - yes
Probably adds up to about 70%.

[andrewducker]

See, that's the kind of analysis I like!