My System Build Software Specs

Base Build

• OS (Vista preferred, but XP SP2 otherwise)
• IE8
• Firefox 3
• Google Reader Note Bookmarklet
• Live Mesh
• Office 2007 SP1
• Zoomit
• VPN
• Virtual PC
• iTunes (do I have to??)
• Windows Live Suite
• Twirhl (everybody says use Tweetdeck, but I persist frankly because I don't need anything more than Twirhl)
• Verizon Access Manager

Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (including Team Explorer)
• Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools
• Mindscape File Explorer (VS Plugin)
• Resharper
• SQL Server Management Studio (at least the Express version)
• Fiddler 2

Oracle

• PL/SQL Developer
• Oracle Locator Express