Into the dark

I'm going through one of those phases where I feel like I need to pull everything out of boxes and organise stuff. That goes for the virtual boxes online too, of course.

I've got three main domains that I use, each with a different types of hosting, each with a different e-mail provider and very different (unnecessarily) visual styles. Stuff that's just grown up over the last 20+ years of having an online presence.

I'm also troubled by the amount of linkrot in the older parts of my blog - the loss of typepad recently probably made it all a lot worse.

And then I have so many plain text files scattered around from my various experiments in organising, programming and writing online. I wish I could not let it bother me, but it does. It's a bundle of unclosed loops that are a cognitive overhead for me. Most of the time it doesn't have too much of an impact, but now and then, I think "I'd really like to get X organised so that I don't have to think about it".

There are drawers and boxes of physical stuff too, that I know in an ideal world would be in more structured storage so that I could find things more easily. Don't even start me on photos.

Probably not the best thing to be ruminating on after 6pm when I've done enough for today!