>>- you get to pick the furniture and the ambient yourself, no matter the wrath of style gods (and it's tax deductible, I think)
>>- you can buy all sorts of gadgets and cool toys and justify them as business expense; half of them will actually be so.
>>- you finally have a good reason to soup up that tin can at home and give it all the memory, disk and processor horsepower you want
>>- and you finally can play with any technology you like, because your today's toy is your technological edge tomorrow morning.
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>You forgot to say that you also have a lot of time on your hands to write long replies to many threads! :-)

I _always_ had that time, although not scattered throughout the day :)