Back from the road, it's great to be in front of my own 23 inch monitor once again. When you're as old and grumpy as I am, being away from your own screen starts to get annoying after a month or two.
So I've noticed that the price of monitors has gone way down, and it reminds me of the cyclicals in the tech sector as us geeks with moola waste ours on early adopter stuff and a year later it's in Best Buy. But we didn't adopt Blu Ray, not in ou own CD burners nor much in our home theatres. I always think of high tech consumer electronics in these cycles, and we are due for a revolution in digital audio quality which has really gone to shite but it hasn't come around yet. In the meantime, Best Buy is downsizing, and I still cannot find 'My Fair Lady' in any digital format - let alone Blu Ray. Where a bunch of my time, and yours has probably gone, my geeky friend, is into the catch all cloud.
What is the catch all cloud? It's this.
It's where all of your digital stuff goes if you're a packrat like me. As you can see, I see stuff and route it to different places. A lot of stuff is double backed up in general cloud places like Google Drive and through Backblaze. Clearly, the most important piece is Evernote and relatively little goes, of necessity to the parallelagrames of social media. I think that social media is not organized for findings of fact. But you know I don't - we don't need to go there. My point is that I think a lot of effort will be spent in differentiating cloud hybrids in the future and that's where things are going, not so much to gadgetry and media you can get at Best Buy. Sooner or later, current ETL vendors are going to recognize this.
In other geekery, I've added that expensive Magic Mouse to my inventory in order to get rid of the industrial injury I get from old ratchety mouse wheels. Think a moment. Do you ever get a pain in the first pad of your index finger from mouse-wheeling? Yes. Interestingly, it's not a joint or muscle problem from that repetitive motion, but just the tip of my finger gets sore. No more.
Here's another tip, guys. You would have thought that after all these years there would be something that gets all of the human grease off of glass. Well, I've known for years that the folks at Neutrogena have done that. Their clear (amber) soap gets my face and hands squeaky clean, and it works wonders for my eyeglasses as well. During a day of keyboarding, my fingers start to get a little slick, surely this happens to you as well. A little Neutrogena solution in a small damp cloth works great for the iPad, iPhone, mouse and keyboard. Anything that gets fouled from human hand grease cleans right up. Try it. In fact, the first time you do it, it will be weird, because your mouse will seem suddenly super grippy.
I'm on the horns of a dilemma with regard to what to pack when the primo goes off the college in the fall. On the one hand, I could send him off with an iPad and bluetooth keyboard. On the other hand, a Mac Mini with his current peripherals would be about an equal spend. Hmm. Can't figure that one out yet..
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