Yesterday, Dave Hayes asked me, “what 5 apps would you say you spend the most time in”.

He was planning on showing me screenshots of those 4 or 5 apps in a theme for gnome-shell.

I just started listing the apps I always have running:

• firefox
• pidgin
• terminal
• rhythmbox
• tomboy

At this point, I realized “5 is impossible” to limit myself to.

• ssh
• chrome
• git/gitg/cola
• xdebug
• firebug
• apache
• php
• postrgesql

“Thats the bare essentials”, I said.  But wait, I’m a liar. So I continued.

• perl
• patch
• meld
• vim
• OpenOffice spreadsheet
• rsync
• htop

Then, there is the proprietary ones:

• gmail
• google calendar
• activestate komodo ide
• google reader
• vmware server / virtualbox

Don’t ask the guy with adhd to list his most used apps.  Then, I started wondering which ones I could live without.  If my computer was on fire and I had the only copy in the world of my favorite apps and all the backups were on clicking seagate 7200.11 hard drives and I could only save five apps, what would they be?

I just re-read that “sentence”.

Diagnosis: Insane.