About ten years ago, Mark Pilgrim wrote up a "How I Work" blog post entitled "essentials".
I'd just started blogging myself a couple of months earlier and said of Mark's post:
I like reading posts like this. They're like a colophon for your digital life.
I then suggested someone should come up with a machine-readable schema for them that included:
- what OS
- what editor
- what browser
- what mail reader
- what feed reader
- what IM client
- what media player
- and so on...
Doesn't just have to be software - could include what cell phone, what portable music player, etc.
Despite suggesting this, I never actually got around to providing my own digital life colophon. That's what this stream is now for :-)