Ruminations

The 80GB hard drive that seemed inordinately capacious back in the old days of photos is no match for the world of video. One dose of evening news and an episode of Parkinson and 10GB was snaffled up in a moment.

I'm not very tidy with my disk space. I don't clean up my messes, I duplicate a bunch o'stuff and keep both copies, I download things and never get rid of them (even if they're crap). But now I had 5GB of Stargate to save and nowhere to put it. A disk spring-clean was in order.

A dip into iTunes found a selection of tracks I was unlikely to ever listen to. Trombone concertos, the free-to-download experimental vocal gymnast, all the stuff without discernible melody or rhythmn - 6GB cleaned up there. All the burn folders and ancient backups - 4GB. The fifteen copies of the bug database left over from 2005 - 2GB. Half an hour later there was nearly 20GB of fresh 'n' tidy new empty disk space.

It's soul cleansing - like loosing a whole lot of weight. Without giving up meat pies...