No Name Blog » computers http://www.nonameblog.com Full blog flavor at a generic price. Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:46:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 30 Day Project – Days 4 – 9 http://www.nonameblog.com/2009/01/21/30-day-project-days-4-9/ http://www.nonameblog.com/2009/01/21/30-day-project-days-4-9/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:04:21 +0000 Matt http://www.nonameblog.com/?p=82 Well the mission to rid my life of stuff I don’t use, don’t need  or is causing me marital strife continues.  While I haven’t done much of a job of updating the last few days the work has continued.  Since Friday, the theme has bee centered around computer stuff.  Now, I’ll admit, I have a lot of paraphernalia related to computers.  The industry, after all, is where I make my living.  (I would like the record to show, however, that it pails in comparison to some of the folks I work with)  Plus, the old “computer” room was the guest room.  It is soon to be the nursery/guest room (don’t worry – if you stay at my house, the baby will stay with us – unless you want to be woken up several times a night).  With the arrival of Tres Nino Van Winkle a few months away, I’m trying to get all that junk out of the room and its accompanying closet.

I won’t go day by day, but the last few nights have seen the following:

  1. Elimination of all the floppy disks I could find.  I was shocked at how many I had.  Some of them went back to the early 90’s!  I copied everything off that seemed of interest and tossed them.
  2. Tossing out some old cables.  Most of them were actually old coaxial TV cables.  I don’t know why I kept them, but I did.  It’s so sad.  My wife must love me to put up with me keeping junk like that “just in case”.  Anyway, they are gone
  3. I went through Several CD’s that I had.  Many of them were old software packages and such.  I tossed those, saved the blank ones, put all the ones containing pictures in cases and kept a few others for now (the sad part is, I still have more to go through.
  4. I gave away printer cartrages for a printer that was stolen from our house a while back (another fun and exciting story)
  5. I gave away a wireless card that is no longer needed.

Tonight (day 9) it’s a second round of media cleansing.  I found more CDs and floppies in the pile.  I’m starting to think the darn things are having kinky media love in the basket they were in and producing new little disks and such – just to make this last longer.  Alas, it is what it is and I have to get back to work…

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