What I want to talk about this week isn’t necessarily web-centric so much as it is web-adjacent. Think of this article in the spirit of lifehacker.
While trying to find space on my incredibly choked-full hard drive for some precious bits to download the current episode of The Daily Show I realized I had over 4 gigs worth of content in my iTunes Podcast directory.
4 GIGS!!!
This is a problem. Like so many things I get temporarily obsessed over, I tend to go a little overboard and bite (hehe, computers.. bite…) off more than I can chew. While podcasts are freaking great, I also have a variety of other pointless wastes of time I enjoy engaging in (books, comics, movies, etc.). Also due to a recent move, my daily commute was cut from around an hour a day to about 10 minutes so I’m just not keeping up with my internet radio fix. Some tough choices had to be made. In the spirit of spring cleaning I culled the heard, cleared the cache and didn’t look back.
I have recently self-enforced an expiration date on DVD’s from NetFlix (if I have a disc for more than a week I really didn’t want it in the first place: send it back) and figured that was a pretty good rule for my podcast library as well. I cleared out a significant space on my ‘puter knowing full well that I could always go back and re-download a given file if I needed to even as my inner packrat screamed in pain.
So, moral of the story? Get out there find new stuff, absolutely, but don’t get bogged down too much, besides, the discovery of the next cool new thing is way more interesting than the boring paperwork and study that comes later. Or something…
