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Here is another new website I’ve been working on over the last few weeks.

• excel-tips.info

This site is for quick, gestural drawings I’ve made using Microsoft Excel. The results can be startling for those of us who have spent a lot of time mucking with numbers or lists of things using Excel.

I’m very interested in what happens when you take an emotionally cold thing like a spreadsheet software package and try to “warm it up” so to speak. I have mostly done these on busses and planes. I have no interest in using this as a pointalistic representational drawing tool.

I use something like this for the beginning of a work day. I set it to launch (for example) iTunes, Mail, iChat, and iCal, and then hide everything except Mail.

I think it’s handy. I trigger it to run and then go get coffee and when I get back everything is where I want it to be. If your computer’s slow, probably increase the value in that line that says “delay 5″.

Very easily adaptable as you’ll see if you open it in Script Editor.

launch basic work apps

Here are three new websites I put together this week:

• frothier.info – for personal, non-private things
• chalkier.info – a chalkboard blog
• trashier.info – for things found in the trash