There is a lot of conflicting advice about how useful the pagefiles are, and what will happen if you disable it, summarized here:
http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it
This article is a bit out of date, and doesn’t take into account the speed of SSDs and how having one of those makes the Windows prefetching not as important. Right now ram is cheap, and SSDs are fast, so unless you need a pagefile for some really technical purpose, or need to have 10 copies of Visual Studio open, you can probably get away without it. Read this guys account of this experience going pagefile free, and doing a bunch of benchmarks about it:
http://www.tweakhound.com/2011/10/10/the-windows-7-pagefile-and-running-without-one/
A recent post on Lifehacker refreshed some ideas I’ve had, and I found 3 good posts about it:
http://japhr.blogspot.com/2012/04/366-or-how-i-tricked-myself-into-being.html
http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret
http://lifehacker.com/5886128/how-seinfelds-productivity-secret-fixed-my-procrastination-problem
These posts are at my resonate frequency, and I think I will give it a shot if it passes the one-week-still-relevant test. I’m a sucker for big diagrams on walls, and measuring progress. This might just be a big enough motivator to counteract the living-alone-syndrome.
As far as tasks to work on, so far I have tried to cook all my meals, cleaning my apt, and spend some time relaxing without electronics. Other ideas I have are writing, programming, learning a new language (programming or otherwise), solving a puzzle and running/exercising. Soon I will get my goals sorted, and make some calendars!
It took me a while to sift through all of the alpha builds, etc. and find the latest version. I didn’t have any luck with Eclipse or Liberty roms, although they seem like solid roms. Hopefully a link here will help some search engines get it right.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/17726-rombetaselfkang-ics4bionic-59902-version-beta-nightlies/
this link will take you to a description of the gummy ics work, and a folder with the latest nightlies. So far it works well, with only a few slight annoyances which will probably be taken care of shortly.