All things digital
If the amount of stuff that I have in digital files were physical objects in my apartment I probably would have health violations and social services would probably be brought in to force me to deal with this issue. Since it is digital it won’t grow mold, have water damage(unless the hard drive gets wet) or exceeded its expiration date, I need to find ways of being proactive and recycle, get rid of, distribute, and archive items in my digital coffers.
I probably have many Terrabytes of data from projects or research stored on computers, hard drives, flash drives, iPhones, cloud accounting like webhosting, Dropbox and Evernote.
Should I throw them all out, or figure out other ways to make them accessible?
Hoarders
Since this collecting has been going on for quite awhile, I feel overwhelmed by the amounts of data and taking some inspiration from the A&E show “Hoarders” I have decided to figure out a way to deal with some of this media. The best solution wouldn’t be to get rid of it all but to force myself to sort through it. I have loaded these things on every moving truck that I have had and probably some of it still is in the same place it was since it was put in the box.
The plan: The blog
Over the next series of months I will go through one of my hard drives and without opening up any of the files I will write about what I think it contains. I will look at the file name, and the file type and describe anything that I remember from that file. After this is complete, I will look at the file and then post it on the blog. It could further the problem, who knows.
Periodically, I will post these writings with the file name to keep a record of the process. This will create diary of what I am doing and commit me to it. I am not sure how long this will go and it may spark some new ideas.
Here we go.
Comments are welcome, and appreciated it.
