I felt this way about the laptop divorce post. You said it well — people need to quit blaming their technology and start correcting their use of it.

With regard to keeping the what-you’re-doing axis and the what-device axis independent, lately I’ve made some applescripts that I run when I switch tasks. My “start work” script quits NetNewsWire and just about everything else, checks new mail, runs iCal, and displays iGTD. My “quit doing what you’re doing” script quits all apps but iGTD and ejects every disk. And there is no “do fun stuff” script — NetNewsWire and Safari only get launched manually. This is mostly helpful to me because my #1 distraction at work is noticing that there are RSS items unread, and even opening NetNewsWire in order to quit it runs that risk. ymmv.