Dear lazyweb: 64-bit or not?

My laptop contains – amongst other things – a dual-core AMD Turion™ 64 X2 which is unsurprisingly a 64-bit processor. When I purchased the machine and shoved Vista to the side to install Ubuntu I opted for the 32-bit version because, well, basically I’m lazy.

One upgrade, multiple updates, and various package installs/removals later and I think things are starting to get a bit crufty. Combining this with my growing resentment of Vista hogging a part of the hard disk that I rarely use, and I’m thinking it’s time to re-install and do it properly this time.

This leaves me with one question though – should I go 64-bit or not? I’ve heard various stories with varying degrees of horror and wonder, and I just don’t know if it’s worth it or not.

Finally! So long Twitter

Two weeks.

Two full weeks.

For over two full weeks I’ve been trying – in vain – to delete my Twitter account, For some reason it finally(!) worked this morning. One less piece of clutter to worry about.

Decluttering

I’ve been doing a bit of autumn cleaning. I’ve dropped some feeds, some friends from Facebook and Pownce, and I’m dropping Twitter and Jaiku entirely (if they’ll ever let me delete the account without erroring).

I’m keeping Pownce, even though I don’t really use it. We’ll see in time if I change my mind.