I realised last night that, in different tabs in the same browser, I was on the one hand spawn-camping ftp.gnome.org waiting for Gnome 2.32 to come out, and on the other hand scouring the internet for a laptop that still comes with Windows XP (to be used with its Windows 2000 theme). I suppose the difference between those two rather distinct attitudes to software novelty is about whom I expect to make things better in each release, and whom I expect to make things worse in each release.

Peter