On May 1, disenchanted with Charter’s $65/month internet-only wealth extraction service, I embarked upon a Great Experiment. Partly as an exercise in parsimony, but also as a matter of principle, I wanted to prove to myself that I could live and live well on a mere three to four gigabytes of purchased data per billing […]
A colleague tells me about driving to Atlanta recently to fetch some digitized images. His client hadn’t been able to file share them, because the images, presumably unseen since the 90s, were stored on 5.25″ floppy disks that not a single machine on the premises was capable of reading. Eventually, a data transfer service had to be hired to burn the images to CD, […]
