Putting off the inevitable

OK, so at some stage I am genuinely going to have to work out exactly how I'm going to move over 20 years' worth of accumulated digital PC stuff to Mac-world. For now, though, I'm putting off the inevitable and just playing around with the new laptop a bit. I installed VMWare Fusion, in anticipation of needing to use the occasional Windows thingy---but also just to see what the state of the art of desktop virtualization looks like. Pretty impressive, is the answer. The thing can boot up Vista from the Boot Camp partition with no problem, and then present applications from Windows running apparently as first-class citizens on the Mac desktop. The moment I minimized a standalone Internet Explorer 7 window running on Vista and it underwent the genie effect and sat on the right hand side of the dock I felt a twinge of happy incredulity. It's like magic. Really I'm anticipating needing Windows for just one thing: Picasa. iPhoto schmiPhoto, everyone knows that Picasa is still the best consumer-grade photo management application. And that's not just the I-work-at-Google talking. I don't think I can leave it behind. So here I am, connected to my shared iTunes library on the PC, playing music and putting off the inevitable. Tomorrow I'll be figuring out how to move my iTunes library from Windows to Mac. And my photo library from Picasa on Windows XP to Picasa on Vista-on-VMWare. Maybe. I may yet be able to procrastinate another few days.