One of my least favourite tasks. All the software to install, all the key codes to enter, all the time spent staring at a screen as the disk spins... In my younger day it was always an exciting thing to have a new machine to play with, in part because the power of each new generation of processors was so much greater than the past. Now... I think that the grey tones in this image, and the slightly out of focus background suggesting the way that the rest of the world "fades out" while you're stuck in front of the screen, both capture the twilight zone that you find yourself in until the chore is done.
