However, it does have one advantage. Normally, being in the damned cubes means that I have to keep relatively quiet -- there are just too many people for any given form of music to be acceptable to everyone in range. But with everyone else gone, I can unplug the headphones, plug in the speakers and turn them up to 11. God, I'd forgotten how much I prefer programming with road music blaring at me...
(Resolution: if I ever found my own company, one requirement for hires is that they can cope with a music-rich environment. Looking Glass was a lot more fun in that respect...)
