Detritus

In anticipation of moving, I'm reviewing all the old disks -- mostly application installs and the like -- that I've accumulated and saved through the years. I know that I've gone through a series of trash-outs in the past, but I'm surprised to find that I still have 5.25-inch disks, in addition to 3.5-inch disk, and CD-ROMs going back to gold disks of Windows '95.
The disks I'm interested in are the MaxThink -- Neil Larson's famous Hypertext processor from about 1991. I can recall his little ads in Byte and PC Magazine. i paid $100 for the software at a time when I didn't really have $100 to spend on software. Then I couldn't figure out how to use it, or at least use it effectively. More fool me.
I also have a copy of Lotus Agenda, another package that I think was too clever by a half. It
I've ruminated previously about the best way to dispose of this plastic and metal and toxic waste that it would be good to keep out of a landfill. I don't want to move this stuff, and I don't want to throw it in a landfill.

Remake, remodel

I found myself wishing and wanting like a little schoolgirl -- I want an information architecture that easily ties together all my disparate web entities and creations into a single flow. from joeraimondo.com to polyopticon.com to designanticipation.com. I want it all hosted in the same place and based on the same template. i want the ability to flow stuff into it and have it all managed. I want to be able to build out into other web properties like elance in order to establish a presence there.
It's a gestalt thing as my chiropractor said yesterday. I'm looking for the "How To" and it doesn't really exist.

Embracing the Green

I notice that a concern for being more ecologically sensitive is returning to my perspective. It disappeared some time during the mid-90's -- at a time when I began driving 50+ miles a day, every day, to a job in a suburban office park.
Why now? is it the impact of the "heightened awareness" of the media? That has an impact, no doubt.