In odd dusty corners

[hrj]

Today's life-cleaning project was the mass of accumulated detritus that had washed up on the computer desk. About 80% by volume could go directly into the trash, but it all needed sorting through. I still need to do more organizing of the current software and documentation, and there's still a stack of "stuff that needs to go away where it belongs". But still, much accomplished.

One of the odder things I came across (originally cleared out of the dining room bookshelves) was a collection of other people's off-site computer backups that I've been holding. I'm guessing that blaurentnv doesn't actually need the complete 33-disk backup set from 1992. Mom -- do I need to hold onto the various genealogy-related backup disks from back when you folks were in Redding? Some of this stuff (like the LaForge diaries) I know I have in more recent form on CD and the rest I'm sure is extremely outdated.

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[msmemory.livejournal.com]

You were on my mind yesterday: someone had put a set of all three volumes of Y Cam. into the royal travel-fund benefit raffle. :)

[hrj.livejournal.com]

It's up to 5 volumes these days but the schedule has become extremely irregular. I'd meant to get back onto a regular publishing schedule after I finished grad school, but I've ended up rethinking the business model given that I've capitulated to the joys of web publishing. So I'm still in the process of deciding whether I want to continue with the general-purpose hard copy publication or shift to a combination of web and hard copy depending on which works best for the topic. (For example, most of my really long name articles work better on-line.)

I do want to do a special "Elizabethan Wales" volume at some point, since I have a bunch of articles in the queue that would fit.

[(Anonymous)]

My idea was that, if ever the house burned down or some other calamity happened, someone besides me would have copies. Do what you think best. Mom

[blaurentnv.livejournal.com]

1992 is probably long enough that they can go. They're probably no longer readable anyway.