Happy New Year!
My daughter, The Sprite tells me that it's an old Chinese tradition to sweep the house and get the evil spirits out. I've heard some folks change the welcome mat on their front porch. Well let me update some of that. I've got to take care of The Terabyte, so you might as well take care of yours.
Now go change your passwords. You know that you need to do it. Don't put it off. Also, double check to see that your virus software is up to date, and backup your hard drives. Clean up all those old programs you're never going to watch on Tivo. Delete 'em now.
Mail back that Netflix movie that you've been sitting on. Go through your old XBox games and get ready to trade them in. Change your ringtone. Change your screensaver. Change your desktop wallpaper. Delete all that crap off of your thumb drive. Wipe the dust off your laptop screen and for God's sake take some Lysol to your keyboard. It's disgusting. Use some alcohol and a q-tip or some WD-40 and clean off all the toe-jam between the keys.
Check to see when your domains are going to expire. And that old one that you've got parked? Nobody's going to buy it. Give it up. Completely re-do your iPod. You've been listening to the same playlists for too long. Re-rip your favorite CDs. Go ahead and use the highest bitrate, you deserve it. You've got all those movies sitting in your My Documents folder, go ahead and upload them to YouTube.
Update your Orkut profile, and your Plaxo, and your Last.fm, and your LinkedIn. Redesign your My Space page, and quit accepting friends that you never talk to. Decide on one email service and stick to it. You're driving people crazy. Buy a new case for those disks you've got laying around, and put real descriptions on them. Reprogram your radio presets. Get fresh batteries for your remote.
Set the time on your VCR. Readjust your graphic equalizer - put a little more treble in your life. Enable your WEP encryption, you're really not serving the public, just the porn downloader next door. Put some new ink cartridges in the printer. Synchronize your calendars. Check off your todo list and archive your old mail folders. Burn some files to disk, you know which ones, especially that list of Christmas card addresses it took you so long to find again.
Upgrade your browser. Try a new font. Change the picture of your login icon. In fact, change the song associated with your login and your power down. Buy a new power strip and stop using those three prong converters. Make sure the strip has a fuse. Put some more icons on your Quick Launch. Add some del.icio.us links. Twitter less. Change the background picture on your phone. Give your phone a real bluetooth name.
Wrap up those power cables and put them in the garage. Throw away that modem, you know you're not going to use it, but do hold on to that extra ethernet card. Put the DVDs back into their proper cases and stack them in the bookshelf, not on top of the TV. Give your old bluetooth headset away. Don't worry, they'll find the right charger for it.
Last but not least, think of all those emails you passed around last
year. Did they bring you good luck or not? I leave that decision to you.
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