Ah yes, the most fun part about a new PC: Reinstalling all the stuff you 
had before.

It's surprising how much stuff you accumulate without realising it. 
Obviously my work PC has Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, which none of 
the other PCs have. I also installed the Haskell compiler the other day, 
and my favourit text editor, SciTE. Today I've installed lots of stuff.

First somebody wanted me to look at a multi-page TIFF, so I installed 
IrfanView for that.

Then I decided I wanted to work on my paper. I went to do a Darcs 
optimise, and... I don't have Darcs installed, do I? So I downloaded 
Darcs, which comes in a Zip file. Ah, I don't have 7zip yet, do I?

Having installed 7zip, and unzipped Darcs and added it to the search 
path, I then went to edit and rebuild my paper. But I don't have TeX 
installed yet either... 100MB later, TeX is installed.

Then I went to look at one of the EPS graphics included in the paper and 
- you can see where this is going? I don't have Ghostscript (or 
GhostView). So I install those two.

And then I go to produce a new diagram, and... yes, I haven't installed 
Gtk2hs yet. Actually, it turns out this doesn't support the latest 
version of GHC yet, so I'm going to have to *un*install that and go back 
to the latest supported version. *sigh*

It's all crazy, you know...

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