Time for some changes (again)

Again it’s time to change some things, especially to clean up a lot, to organize things that waited to be organized for years, and again to try to simplify things.

Visible changes are for example the move to wordpress.com instead of using my own webspace at godaddy.com. Why? Because your own webspace, especially when running scripts (PHP) and databases (which was required to run my wordpress blogs), always needs attention and has to be updated very often to prevent any security flaws. That’s annoying and really not necessary today. Today you can store everything in the “clouds” which are service providers for almost every type of content, and many of those are even free!

But of course, I had to give up some things: everything from the past that was all stored on my webspace, including old pictures, homepages, and many many sound files. But, well, it’s the “past”, isn’t it? It’s time to let go.

If I want to share photos or other files I use dropbox.com today, and the free service already provides enough space for me. Because, to be honest, if you share any pictures, they’re from the latest event only, and they don’t have to remain available online forever. And if I want to have something remaining in a public gallery there’s still flickr.com or picasa.google.com.

And all the audio files I kept on my server (mostly recordings from doing webradio shows or any music mixes I made), well, who accessed them today? Nobody. Even not me, because I forgot about them. And for me, it’s absolutely enough to have them stored at home. (And if I want I can make them accessible from my computer at home…)

So, what’s left? There’s just this blog here, happyradio.de, and my podcast (now at siggitalker.wordpress.com).

And behind the curtains, I also managed to find time to organize my music and photo libraries at home (and to consolidate several libraries from across several hard disks – well, that was a hell of work…).

I can tell you: It feels good!
(Sometimes changes are just good.)

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