Collaborate Disseminate
Our third and final trip to Mexico City this year unfolded much like our previous two, in March and July, where we just lived like locals, worked each day, and did just a bit of sightseeing. This is by design: Our goal is to spend more time here each y… Continue reading What I Use: Mexico City (October 2023) (Premium)
Bad news, Microsoft: I just spent the past month using Google Drive in Windows for all my work-related documents and storage needs. And it didn’t just work, it worked flawlessly.
This is particularly interesting to me because of the timing: With the re… Continue reading One Month of Google Drive Made Me a Convert (Premium)
Enshittification is that sense of betrayal you get when a personal technology product or service you use and rely on turns on you, exposing the harsh reality that the needs of its maker are more important than your own. This doesn’t usually happen sudd… Continue reading Sadly, Now We Need to Talk About OneDrive (Premium)
Flush with my decluttering success, I ended up trying to do too much at once and made too many mistakes, causing me to run up against multiple blockers across each project, halting my progress. And so I am scaling back my unrealistic expectations, reth… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned (Premium)
I take far more personal photos than videos, but we also have a collection of home videos that were created with a variety of analog and digital cameras over the years before we moved to smartphones. Most of these videos were created in the very early … Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Home Videos (Premium)
As you may recall, I wrote last week that I had essentially finished organizing and decluttering my documents archives. But at that point, it was only in two places, one temporary: OneDrive, and then the locally synced copy on the laptop I was using. S… Continue reading Digital Declutter: Finish Work, Final Scans, and a Peek at the Future (Premium)
As part of a grueling summer in concrete construction the summer after I graduated from high school in 1985, I built a wall. And not just any wall, but a concrete wall surrounding a field for horses that was molded using a Styrofoam “foam form” that wo… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: For the Love of NAS (Premium)
Over the weekend, I was able to dramatically reduce the file size of my pre-Thurrott.com archives, which dropped from 116 GB to about 48 GB.
At a high level, this work resembled what I did with my loose photos and scans: I assessed what I had, volume- … Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Tackling the Document Archive (Premium)
Two weeks ago, I started the time-consuming process of organizing, tagging, and archiving over 21 GB of scanned photos as part of a new digital decluttering initiative. Today, I am happy to report that I’ve concluded that work, and less happy to report… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Some Photo Progress, and a Shift to Documents (Premium)
You’ve all seen the news: the prices of the online services we all subscribe to are going up this year. That it’s time to scale back is obvious, but the good news is that we have more choices than ever. And that’s especially true of streaming video ser… Continue reading Subscription Sticker Shock: Streaming Video, Music, Storage, and More (Premium)