Maps #31: Have Map, Will Travel

Here are the coffee houses near the Barbara Bush Library


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Sound: #27: Creating Your Own Podcast

I am not sure about this, I'll check it out later. Maybe something with which my "Artistic Director" can help.

Sound: #26: Making (or listening to) Music Together

Not up my alley. I will have to see what my "Artistic Director" has to say.

Sound: #25: Am I a music pirate? It's hard to know...

I uploaded Nina Simone, 'Revolution' from the Free MP3 of the Day website. There is also CNET Download Music. Free is a great thing unless you are a classical music lover like me. There is a lot of really good material out there though, you just have to be patient.

When it comes to music I am a purist and for me, MP3 or whatever method you use to compress the files, much is lost in the process. Listen to the same song first in MP3 and then directly from the original CD. The difference is very obvious even to someone with bad hearing. Me for instance.

Spring Cleaning #30: Take a Load Off Our Drives

This Spring cleaning business is an ongoing thing with me. I try to check my, and common, folders a couple of time a month. Amazing how much garbage accumulates in just a couple of weeks.

Spring Cleaning #29: Email

I have 20 messages in 4 folders. Inbox 7, iHCPL 6, Minutes 6, Save 1.


I keep most of my documents in a flash drive.

Spring Cleaning #28: Don’t Clutter Up Expensive Cyberspace

I subscribed to Ta-da List because it seemed the least cluttered but mostly because it had most straightforward and shortest Terms of Service and Privacy Statement. I do not have a calendar or to do lists, I am a husband, father, and primarily grandfather. I have enough people telling me what to do, when to do do it, where to do it. but mostly how, or how not, to do it. I love my job at the library.

Having worked on computers most of my life I am painfully aware of of how space, lack or abundance, impacts everything around us. Not just in terms of cost but also performance, time, and in turn, production and productivity. The less space, be it temporary, archival, random access memory, or bandwidth, the longer we spend waiting for the screen to appear. The speed of your personal computer has more to do with space than with the CPU speed. If the fastest transport can only carry one pound it will have to make may many trips to carry a to. Think airplanes vs. freight trains.

I do my Spring cleaning year-round.