>>6It's just a well-off 20-something web ninja's standard setup. More indicative of her background than anything else.
Just like Kernighan's setup, here:
http://brian.kernighan.usesthis.com/.He was just using what you'd expect from an elderly CS University professor. Some oldtimey mail client, his favorite editor, and MS Office running on top of some sort of Unix on near stock configuration. For some reason everyone was disappointed by that.